i ee —_ 7 | Good Will Hunting | an original script by Matt Daron and Ben Affleck ’ story by Matt Damon Contact: Miramax Filme4 FRUE IN: INT. BLARNEY STONE BAR & GRILLE, SOUTH BOSTON -- EVEKIKG The bar 4s dirty, more than a little run down. If there is ever a cook on duty, he's not here now. As we pan ecross several empty tables, we can almost arei] the odor of last nights beer and crushed pretzels on the floor. CHUCKIE Oh my God, I got the nost fucked up thing I been meanin' te tell you. As the camera rises, we find FOUR YOUNG HEN seated around a table near the back of the bar. ALL Oh Jesus. Here we go. The guy holding court 4s CHUCKIE SULLIVAN, 20, and the largest of the bunch. He 1s loud, boisterous, a born entertainer. ext to him is WILL HUNTING, 20, handsome and confident, a soft-spoken leader. Gn Will's right sits BILLY MoBRIDE, 72, heavy, quiet, someone you definitely wouldn't want to tangie Finally there {3 MORGAN O'MALLY, 15, smaller than ys. Wiry and anxious, Morgan listens to Chuckie stories with eager disgust. = boys spe working Ci with thick Boston accents. This is a 8 irish neighborhood CHUCKIE You guys know my cousin Mikey Su2iivan? ALL 7 Yeah. CHUCKIE Well you know how he loves animals Fight? Anyway, last week he's drivin’ home... (laughs) 5 ALL What? Come on! CHUCKIE 15. (trying not to laugh) Im sorry, ‘cause you know Mikey, the fuckin guy loves animale, and this is the last person you'd want this to happen to. Bee : WILL Chuckie, what the fuck happened? (CONTINUED) oO eat eae: ens F.crCBRUCKIE Okay. He's drivin along and this _ fuckin’ cat jumps dn front of his car, and so he hits this cat-- Chuckie 4s really laughing now. MORGAN --That don't funny-- CHUCKIE t zrand he's like “shit! Motherfucker!" : And he looks in his rearview and sees thie cat-- I'm sorry: BILLY Fuckin’ Chucki: t | : CHUCKIE | So he sees this cat tryin to make it acrot st and it's not lookin’ good. WILL , It's walkin’ pretty siow at this point. MORGAN You guys are fuckin’ etek. CHUSKIE -_~ i aike "Fuck, I gotta put this thing out of its misery™-— MORGAN This ie-- , CHUCKIE : --So he gets a hanmer-- i WILL/MORGAN/BILLY a on! : cHUCKIE =-out of his tool box, and starts : Ghasin’ the cat and starte whackin' it with the hammer. You know, tryin’ to put the thing out of it's misery. MORGAN Jesus. CHUCKIE And all the time he's apologizin' to the cat, goin’ "r'm sorry." BANG, "I'm sorry." BANG! BILLY as Like it can understand. (CONTINUED)aN CBUCKIE --And this Samoan guy comes runnin’ out of bis house and he’s like "What the fuck are you doing to my cat?!" = Mikey's like *2'm sorry’: oI hit your cat with my truck, and I'm just trying to put dt out of it's misery"-- BANG! And the cat dies. So Mikey’s ike "Why don't you come look at the front of ay truck." "Cause the other guy's all fuckin £1Spped out about- WILL Watching his cat get brained. Morgan gives Will a look, but Will only smiles. CHUCKIE Yeah, so he's like “Check the front of my truck, I can prove I hit it ‘cause there's probably some blood or something"= WILL ror a taii-- MORGAN WILL! CHUCKIE “ad se = and to ths front of his truck. nd there's another cat or the grille WILL/MORGAN/BILLY ~ No! Ugh! CHUCKIE 1s that unbelievable? He brained an innocent cat! BLACKOUT: Jorge Ben's “Umba Badda Uma" immediately begins and the opening credits roi. @ @ panoramic view of South Boston WEIR sits in-his apartment, walls completely bare. A bed, 0 emaé} night table and an empty waste! et adorn the room. A ack of twenty or so LIBRARY BOOKS sit b; flipping through a book at about a page a We travel across crowded public housing and onto downtoxn. Finally, we gaze across the river and onto the great cement- domed buildings that make up the M.I.T. campus. Fe eerecs2952INT, M.1.T. CLASSROOM -- DAY The classroom is packed with graduate students, PROFESSOR LAMBEAU (£2) is at the lectern. The chalkboard behind hic. as Covered with theorens. ’ LAMBEAU Please finish McKinley by next month. Many of you probably had this as undergraduates in real analysis. It won't hurt to brush up. I an Putting an advanced fourier the main hallway chalkboard-- Everyone groans. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) I'm hoping that one of you might prove it by the end of the sene: The fizst person to do so will not only be in my good graces, but gc on to fare and fortune by having their accomplishment recorded and their name printed in the auspicious "M.I.z. Math en.® holds up a thin publication entitled "M.2 Everyone laughs. LAMBEAU (CONT'D; nacre include Jose: Laureates, owned astro-physiciste an? lowly M.I.7. professors. More laughe. LAMBEAU (COKT'D) Okay. That 4s ali. A amattering cf applause. Students pack their bags. INT. FUNLAND -~ LATER The place 4s-a monster indoor funpark. Will, Chuckie, Morgan ity are in adjoining batting cages. Will has disabled to Chuckie. ‘The boys jen drinking, Will throws one to Chuckie, high and Several empty beer cans sit by the cage. CHUCKIE wat Another pitch, inside. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) You're gonna get charged! (CONTINUEE)Seerzerse20 16: 7T WILL You think I'm afraid of you, you big fuck? You're crowdin' the plat guns another one, way inside. CHUCKIE Stop brushin’ me back! WILL Stop crowdin' the plate! Chuckie laughs and steps back. CRUCKIE Casey's bouncin' at a bar up Harvard. We should go up there sometime. WILL What are we gonna do up there? CHUCKIE Idon't know, we'll fuck up some smart (atepping back ir) You'd Prob'ly fit right in. WILL Fuck you. Wizi fires a pitch at Chuckie's head. Chuckie dives to av: being hit. He gets up and whips his batting helmet 2: EXT. SOUTH BOSTON ROOFIO: -- CARL: Arti slOoN SEAK MeGUIRE ($2) sits, FORMALLY DRESSED, on the roof of his apartment building in a beat-up lawn chair. Weil-bui. fairly muscular, he stares blankly out over the city. 2p rests an open INVITATION that reads "m.2.7. CLASS UNION". While the morning 1s quiet and Sean site serenely, there is a jock about his that tells us he has faced hard times. This 48 8 man who fought his way through life. On his lonely tare we: ett To: 'YeUF REUNION PARTY has taken over the lawn, A A sed'throng mill about underneath a large banner that reads: "WELCOME BACK CLASS OF '67", We find Professor Lanbeau standing with a drink in his hand, surveying the crowd. He 4s interrupted by an approaching STUDENT. (CONTINUED) 5.07o~ LAMBEAU STUDENT I'm in your applied theories class. We're all down at the Math and Science ° building. LAMBEAU It's saturday. STUDENT I know. We just couldn't wait ‘tila Monday to find out. LAMBEAU Find out what? STUDENT Who proved the theoren. EXT. TOM FOLEY PARK, 8. BOSTOX AFTERKOOK jn the bleachers of the visiting section we find our boys, goinking and smoking cigarettes. Will pops open a bees’ the boys have been here for a while and it shows. Biciy sees something that catches his interest. Billy Who's that? She's got a nice e. Their F.0.V. reveals a girt in. beefy looking ITALIAN GUY (BOBBY atch gast. :.iking ts 3 CHAMPA} MORGAX Yah, that is a nice ass. . CHUCKIE : You could put @ pool in that backyard. BILLY Who's she talkin' to? MORGAN That fuckin’ guinea, Will knows him. WILL Yah, Bobby Chanpa. He used to beat the shit outta me in Kindergarten. BILLY He's a pretty big kid. WILL Yah, he's the same size now as he was in Kindergartei (CONTINUED) ee:e0s2082 97% Feemo MORGAN Fuck this, let's get something to eat... CHUCKIE : What Morgan, you're not gonna go ta:k to her? MORGAN Fuck her. The boys get up and walk down the bleachers. WILL I cou2d go for a Whopper. MORGAN (nonchalant) Let's hit McDonalds. CHUCKIE Morgan, I'm not goin’ to NeDonalds Just cause you like the drive through gizl. It's fifteen minutes out of our way. MORGRY What else we gonna do we can't spare fifteen minutes? CHUSKIE All right Morgan, fine. 1111 tel? ysu why we're not goin to McDonalds. It's because the drive through $i--h ic a fuckin’ idiot. I'm sorry you like her Dut she's durb as a post and she bas never got our order right, never o7 MORGAN She's not stupid. WILL She's sharp as a marble. CHUCKTE We're not goin’. (beat) I don't even like McDonalds. = cur To: wee we: HALLWAY == LATER + still in his reunion formal-wear, strides down the arrying some pape: A group of students have gathered by the chalkboard. Part like the red sea as he gpproaches the board. Using the papers in hand, he checke the procs. isfied, he turns to the class. (CONTINUED) 216452982LAMBEAD This is correct? Who did this? Dead siience. Lambeau turns to an INDIAN STUDENT. % LAMBERU (CONT'D) = Nenesh? Nemesh shakes his head in ai NEMESH No way. Lambeau e: 9 the proof and starts putting up a nex one. LAMBEAU Well, whosver You are, I'm sure you’: find this one challenging enough tc merit coming forward with your identity. That is, 4f you can do it. INT. CRUCKIE'S CAR, DRIVIKS IN SOUTH BOSTON -- CONTINUOS: dhe street is crowded as our boys drive down Broadway. They move siowly through heavy traffic, windows down. Chuckie Sorts through a large MCDONALDS BAS as he drives. MORGAK Big Ma + hoids the wheel for Chuskte as he looks through MORGRE: (CONT'D) (Same tone) Big Mac. Chuckie gets out fries for himself, hands Wi11 his fries. MORGAK (CONT'D) 2, Thad a Big Mac. CHUCKIE Would you shut the fuck up! 1 know what you ordered, I was there! MORGAN : So why don't you give me my sandwich? J cHUCRIE : ze What do you mean “your sandwich"? 7 p Bought 4. HORGAN (sarcastic) Yah, all right... CHUCKIE How much money you got? (CONTINUED) porqaszes> = Facos MORGAN I told yeu, I just got change. CHUSKIE Nell give me your fuckin’ change and we'll put your fuckin" sandwich on lay- away. MORGAN Why you gotta be en asshole Chuckie? CHUCKIE I think you should establish a good line of credit. Laughter, Chuckie goes back to searching through the bag. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) Oh motherfucker... WILL She didn't do dt again did she? CHUCKIE Jesus Christ. Not even elo: MORGAN Did she get my Big Mac? ann GHUSKTE SHE DIDN'T GET YOUR BIG MAT! 27's ALL FUCKIN' FILET-0-FIsH! | Chuckie whips a filet-o-fish back to Morgan, then tc WILL Jesus, that's really bad, did anyone . even order a filet-o-f19h? CHUCKIE No, and we got. four of ‘en. BILLY You gotta be kiddin' me. Why do we even go to her? CHUCKIE @ fuckin’ Morgan's got a crush on r, we always go there and when we get to the window he never says « fuckin' word to her, he doesn't even look at her, and she never gets our order right cause she's the goddamn MISSING LINK! WILL Well, she out did herself today... ci (CONTINUED) 18k eas2eezWen 2e-2987 1473 eeiseszeez idea re. MORGAN I don't got a crush on her. Push in on Wi21 who 3 Something 0.5. -V. reveals BOBBY CHAMPA and his friends walk down treet. One of then casually lobs a bottle into a wire garbage can. It SHATTERS and some of the glass hits a FEMS PASSERBY who, although unhurt, is upset. CHOCKIE What do we got? WILL I don't know yet. WILL'S P.O.V.: The woman Something back. By the 11 unpleasant, 2 something te Bobby. He says on her face, it was somet: ng MORGAN Come on, Will... CHUCKIE Shut up. MORGAN No, why didn't you fight hin at the park if you wanted to? I'm not goin! now, I'm eatin' my snack. WILL (omdies) So don't go. : Mili is out the door, Jogging toward Bobby Champa. Billy Gers out, following Wil] with a look of casual indifference. CHUCKIE Morgan, Let's go. MORGAN I'm serious Chuckie, I ain't goin’. Leaving the car, Chuckie opens his door to follow. a cHUCKTE ub (oping in his You're goin’, and you" there in two fuckin' second: done with them you're next! it) not out. when I'm And with that, Chuckie is out the door. cur To:Jeeoganres- 14:7 eeieaszers EXT. SIDEWALK -- CONTINUOUS Wil comes jogging up towards BOBBY CHAMPA, calling out fror across the street. + WILL z (emdiing, good naturediy) Bey, Bobby Champa! I want to Xindergarten with you right? Sister Margaret's class... Bobby is bewildered by this strange interruption of Will's intentions. Just when it looks as thot might remember him, Will DRILLS HIM with begins the FIGHT SEQUENCE: 40 FRAMES OVER M. GAYE'S “LET'S GET IT on." Bobby sucker-punch which Will's momentum and respectable strength serve to knock the hapless Champa out cold. As goon as Will bits Bobby, his friends CONVERGE OK KILL. Billy JUMPS IN and wrestles one guy to the ground. The sxe exchange messy punches on the sidewalk. Wit] is in trouble, back pedaling, dodging punches trying to avoid being overrun. When Will goes for one guy, anothes hes shot and he HAMMERS WILL with a right to the hea. staggered and bleary, second guy winds up fer a if BLIND SIDED by Chuckie who hita the kid iike he ckling sled, lifting him off the ground. Chuckie turns to see Will still outnumbered. I:'s ati W £20 2g 02 Stay standing as Morgan DROP KICKS one of Chanpa’s boys from the hood of a car. Gontrary to what we might think, Morgan 4s actually quite a fighter. He pep; the kid with a flurzy of blows. The fight is me: wildly and miss, throws a bott: Ys ugly and chaotic. Most punches are throwr, de are banged against concrete, somecne es ehgs tnd, Jit * our guys who are left standing, while Bobby's friends stagger off. Chuckie and Morgan turn to see tilt, ffinding over the unconscious Bobby Champa, stil] POUNDING Fs = ON WILL: SAVAGE, UGLY, VICIOUS AND VIOLENT Whatever demons must be raging ineide Wi22, he is taking ther. gut on Bobby Champa. He pummels the helpless, unconsci cus Champa, fury in his eyes, Chuckie and Billy pull Mill away. The POLICE f4nally arrive on the scene messed Will's Vicious attack on Char; nd having only + they grab hin.EXT, SIDEWALK (FULL SPEED) -- CONTINOUS A crowd of onlookers have gathered. Chuckie addresses the-. CHUCKIE Hey, thanka for comin' out. WILL Ye u're all invited over to Morgan's house for a complenentary fish sandwich. The Folice @lam Will ento the hood of a car. WILL (CONT*D) (to Police) Hey, I know it's not a French cruller, but it's tre The cop holding Will SLAMS his face into the hood, anothe: Sop uses his baton to press Will's face intc the car. The look of rage returns to Will" WILL (CONT'D) Get the fuck off me! Rill resists. Another cop comes over. Wil] KICKS HIM Ii THE BAEC, (dropping the cop. Monentarily freed, Will engages ina fracas with three cops. More converge on Will, who--thougs he struggles-- takes a beating. EXT. SEAK'S ROOF -- NIGHT Sean sits, exactly ap we first saw him, except his tie 4s nov joobe and an empty bottle of BUSHNILLS is at his side. ‘ite stares out over the city. A MATRONLY LANDLADY comes out of a doorway on the roof, ‘LANDLADY Sean? Sean doesn't answer. LANDLADY (CONT'D) Sean? You okay? SEAN Yeah. LANDLADY It's getting cold. After a moment, she retreats back down the stairs. sean doesn't move. "DISSOLVE: é Theze-98 16:77 ee16as22s2 aeaa. EXT. CHARLES RIVER, ESTABLISHING SHOT -- MORNING ‘The morning aun reflects brilliantly off the river. EXT. COURTHOUSE -- NEXT MORNING Wild. emerges from the courthouse. chuckle 1s waiting for hin in the Cadidiac with two cups of DONKIN’ DOOGENUSS cotics. He hands one of then to Mill. This feels routine. cavexze When's the arraignment? WILL Next woe! Chuckie pulls away. EXT. M.I.T. CAMPUS, ESTABLISHING SHOT -~ MORNING Studente walk to class, garrying bags. More than any other, students seem to be heading into ONE PARTICULAR CLASSROOM. INT. M.I.T. CLASSROON -- MORNING The classroom is even more crowded than when last we saw it. au plays along with the excited environment with mock pomposity and good humor. LAMBEAU Te dt my imagination, or has my class grown considerably? Laughter. More laughter. LANBEAU_(couT’D) . But: gather to ascertain the identity Of who Our tatenned “auth Eeviev" Das come to call "the Magician.” ieideat! ke the M.2.7. Math Review featuring a silhouetted figure, oned with a large, white question mark. The beadline reads "Mystery Math Magician strikes agein.© LAMAEAU (CONT'D) Whoever you are, you've solved four of the meee Taletieaat ‘theorems I've ever (CONTINUED)LAMBEAU (CONT'D) given a class, So without further ad come forward silent rogue, and receive thy prize. Tho class waits in breathless anticipation. A STUDENT shifts his.weight in his chair, making a noise. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Well, I'm sorry to disappoint my Spectators, but it appears there wil) be no unmasking here today. going to have to ask those of you not enrolied in the class to make your ape now be of or, for the next three hou: ubjected to the mundaniti eigenvector: People start to gather their things and go. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) However, my colleagues and I have conferred. There is. problem on the board, right now, that took us two years to prove. So let this be the gauntlet haa been thrown down. But the faculty have answered the challenge and answered with vigor. M.1.7. HALLWAY -- NIGHT ids Be Larbeav comes out of his office turns tc walk down the hallway, he stops and 1éste TISKINS SCUND can be heard. He turns and walks tovard INT. M.I.7. HALLWAY -- NIGHT arbeau comes around a corner. His P.0.V. reveals a figure ip silhouette blazing through the proof’on the chalkboard. There is a mop and bucket beside h: As Lambeau draws closer, reveal that the figure is WILL, in his janitor's uniforz.. There is a look of intense concentration in his cy. LAMBEAU nd locks the door. As he A faire Excuse me! Will looks up, immediately starts to shuffle off. WILL on, I'm sorry, LAMBEAU What are you doing? WILL (walking away) I'm sorry. y follows Will down the hall. (CONTINUED) Fe 1er3e eerseszeczIR-ze-295° 16:35 erieasaas2 ‘LAMBLAU What's your name? (beat) Don't you walk away from me. This is People's work, you can't graffit: here. - WILL Hey fuck you. LAMBEAU (flustered) +; I'll be speaking to your supervisor. 1 walks out. Lambeau goes to "fix" the Proof, scanning the blackboard for whatever damage Will caused. He stops, scans the board again. Amazement ragisters on his face. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) My God. Down the hall, we hear the DOOR CLOSE. He turns te look fer Will, who is gene. EXT. BOW AND ARROW PUB, CAMBRIDGE -- THAT RIGHT A crowded Harvard Several Harvard Bt z. Will and our gang wa2k by a line of nts, waiting to be carded. ‘MORGAN What happened? (beat) Yeu got fired, huh? WILL Yoah, Morgan. I got fired. MORGAN (starts laughing) How fuckin! retarded do you have to be to get shit-canned from that jcb? How hard ie 4t to push a fuckin’ broon? CHUCKIE You got fired from pushin' a broon, you little bitch. MORGAN Yah, that was different. Management was restructurin EE BILLY s-Yah, reotructurin' the number of retards they had workin' for them. MORGAN Fuck you, you fat fuck. (CONTINUED)BILLY Least I work for a livin’. (to Will) Why'd you get fired? WILL Management was restructurin'. Laughter, CHUCKIE, My uncle can probably get you on ny demo team. MORGAN What the fuck? I just asked you for a Job yesterday! CHOCKIE I told you “no* yesterday! After two students flash their ID’ 8 to the doorman (CASEY) our boys file past hin, ALL another) With an imperceptible nod, Casey waves our boys through. A 2fth kid, a HARVARD STUDENT, tries to follow. He is sicppes by Casey's massive, outstretched arr: CASEY iD? INT. BOW AND ARROW =~ CONTINUOUS Chuckie is collecting money from the guys to buy a pitcher, 21 but Morgan cough up some crumpled dollars. CHUCKIE So thie {9 a Harvard bar, huh? 1 thought there'd be equations and shit on the wall. INT. BACK SECTION, BOW AND ARROW -- MOMENTS LATER Chuckie returns to a table where Will, Morgan and Billy have made. themselves comforted: Be spots two ATTRACTIVE YOUNS HARVARD WOMEN sitting together at the end of the bar. Chuckie struts his way toward the women and pulls up a chair. He f1dMMes a anile and tries to submerge his thick Boston accen:. CHUCKIE, Hey, how's it goin'? LYDIA (fr4endly but knowing) Fine. (CONTINUED) Seee2e2987 16:35 eer6as2052 wm F.SKYLAR Okay. CHUCKTE Se, you ladies ah, go to school here? LYDIA Yes. CHUCKIE Yeah, cause I think I had a clase with you. At this point, Billy and Wi2] try, themselves within iis in a HARVARD LACROSSE ed parti inconspicuousy ning distance. rialize. Morgan Possible, to situa: He kS over to Sky. ind Lydia, nobly hovering over ther. as Protector. This gets Nill, Morgan and Billy's attentien. SHYLAR What cl > CHUCKIE Ab, history I think. SKYLAR Ob... CHUCKIE atte not a bad school... Clark can't resist and steps in. CLARK What class did you say that was? CHUCKIE History. CLARK How'd you like that course? CHUCKIE Good, dt was all right. CLARK History? Just *history?™ rt aust have been a survey course then. Chuckie nods. Clark notices Chuckie's clothes. W412 and Billy exchange a look and move subtly closer. CLARK (CONT'D) Pretty broad. “History of the World"? (CONTINUED) Jevnza-1997 14: eezecs2eez bee fadeCHUCKIE Hey, cone on pal we're in classes al? dey. That's one thing about Harvard never seizes to amaze me, everybodys talkin! about school all the time a Hey, I'm the y to about echool at the bar. as you're here I want to opportunity to ask you a question. Billy shifte his beer into his left hand. Will and Morgan see this. Morgan rolls his eyes as if to say “not again...” CLARK (CONT'D) Oh, I'm eure you covered it in your history cl Clark looks to see if the giris are impressed. They are not. When Clark looks back to Chuckie, Skylar turns to Lyd:a rolls her eyes. They laugh. Will sees this and sriles. CHUCKIE To tell you the truth, I w there Bush, The class was rather elementary. CLARK Erementary? Oh, I don't doubt that it I renerber the clazs, it was between recess and lunch. come forward, stand bahind Checkze. CHUCKIE All right, are we gonna have a prokier? CLARK There's no problem. I was just hoping you could give me some insight into the evolution of the market econony in early coloni contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War the economic modalities especially cf the southern colonies could most aptly +, be characterized as agrarian pre capitalist and : who ‘at. this point hai fetely fed-up, include ae WILL Of course that's your contention. You're a first year grad student. You migrated to Chuckie's side and is himself in the conversation. just finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison prob'ly, and 80 naturally that's what you will (MORE) (CONTINGED) reset eereeszeez Fzene eee eee ee 1s. WILL (CONT'D) believe until next month when you get to James Lemon and get convinced tha Virginia and Pennsylvania were strongiy entrepreneurial and capitalist back in 2740, That'll last until sometime in your second year, then you'll be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood about the pre-Revolutionary utopia and the Capital-forming effects of military mobilization, CLARK (taken aback! We22, matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the dmpact of-: tically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated wealth, especially inherited th..." You got that from *Work in inty", page 421, right? Do any thoughts of your own on the subject or were you Just gonna Plagiarize the whole book for me? 5 stunned, "Wai (CONT'D) Look, don't try to pase yourself off ae some kind of an intellect at th expense of my friend just to irprese ~ these girle. : Stark 48 lest now, searching for a gracefur exit, any exit. WILL (CONT'D) The sad thing 43, in about $0 years you might start doin' some thinkin’ on your own and by then you'll realize there are only two certainties in life. WILL One, don't be a prick. Two=- you dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you coulda picked up for & dollar fifty in late charges at the Public Library. Will catches Skylar's eys. (CONTINUED) eeieas2ce2 iadCLARK But I will have a degree, and you'll be serving my kids fries at a drive through on our way to a skiing trip. : WILL (oniies) Maybe. But at 1 unoriginal. (beat) And if you got a problem with that, I guess ve can step outeide and deal with it that way. While Will 4s substantially smaller than Clark, he decides noz to take Nill up on his offer. WILL (CONT'D) If you change you're mind, 1°12 be over by the bar. t I won't be He turns and walks avay. Chuckie follows, throwing Clark a ieok. Morgan turns to a nearby gir. MORGAN My boy's wicked smart. , INT. ROW AND ARROW, AT THE BAR ~~ LATE S with Morgan at the bar watching with sore ai zkie and Billy play bar basketball in the B.G. icnally we hear Chuckie shouting "Larry!" When he acores. F emerges from the crowd and approaches Wil. sement WILL mL. : SKYLARK I hope my coming over here doasn't mean we have to “step outside and d with it, WILL I don't know, you look kinda ‘roughneck. * BKYLAR Look, that guy was a real dick over there and J just wanted you to know he Wasn't with us. WILL Yeah, I kind of got that impression. I think be might like you though. SKYLAR I know, he &@ total nightmare. I Seem to attract the wrong element. (CONTINUED) eeieas2e82& (indicating se1f) Case in point. (beat) a I'm Will. SKYLAR Skylar. Well, look, Ih 0 9 Gotta get up early and waste some more money on my overpriced education. WILL I didn't mean you. Listen, maybe... SKYLAR Heze's my nunber. Skylar produces a folded piece of paper and offers it to Wii. SKYLAR (CONT'D) Maybe we could go out for coffee sometime? WILL Great, or maybe we could go somewher: and just bunch of caranexi SKYLAR What? WILL When you think about it, it's tust as arbitrary a drinking coffee. SKYLAR Qaughs) Okay, sounds good. EXT. BOW AND ARROW -- LATER Our boys are walking out of the bar teasing one another about their bar-ball exploits. Acrose the street is another bar with a glass front. Horgan spots Clark sitting by the winds. with some friends. MORGAN Thera goss that fuckin’ Barney right an now, with his fuckin’ kiin* trip" ee should'a Kicked that dude's ai reece WILL Hold up. Will crosses the street and approaches the plate glass window and stands across from Clark, separated only by the glass. Ne POUNDS THE GLASS to get Clark’ ntion. WILL (CONT'D) Rey! (CONTINUED) eeseeszes2 ot a: 22. Clark turns toward Wili. WILL (CONT'D) DO YOU LIKE APPLES? Clatk doesn't get it. WILL (CONT'D) DO YOU LIKE APPLES?! CLARK Yeah? Will SLAMS SKYLAR'S PHONE NUMBER against the glass. WILL WELL I GOT HER NUMBER! HOW DO YA LIKE THEM APPLES?! ! Will's boys erupt dnto laughter. Angie cx Clark, defiated. MONTASE: (Over Music) 1. The boys make their way home, piled into Chuckie's car, laughing together. 2. Shot cf car crossing over the Charies St. Bridge, overtakin: @ red-line train. 2. Traveling through narrow back reads in Chi the Bunkez hill monune: eetcwn, pa! 4. Arriving at Will's house, and dropping hir off. DISSOLVE: 1.1, BUILDING AND GROUNDS GARAGE -- DAY . Lambeau walks into a small garage facility. The area stores Jawn machinery and various tools. An older man, TERRY (SE) sits behind the desk reading the BOSTON HERALD sports page. Landeau haa obviously never been. here before. He takes in the surroundings, somewhat uncomfortable. Gets dirty. Int. LAMBEAU Excuse me. Is this the buildings and grounds office? * TERRY SE. foah, can 1 neip you? “ LNBEAU I'm trying to find the name of a student who works hei TERRY I don't have any students working for ne. (CONTINUED) fee aa rae23. LAMBEAU Could you Just check, because the young man who works in my building-- TERRY Which one's your building? LAMBERT Building two. Terry checks a list behind his TERRY Well, if something was stole: know about it. LAMBEAD No, no. Nothing like that. I just need his name. TERRY I can't really give you his nane unless you have a complaint. ‘LAMBEAD Please, I'm a professor here and it's very important. TERRY Weil, he didn't show up for work toda! ak. Looks up. I should Terry takes a beat. Holding al] the cucds. TERRY (CONT'D) Look, he got this job through his P.a. 90 you can call hin. Terry goes through a stack of papers on his desk. card and tt to Lambeau. “Lambeau locks bian’ card which 9 “PAROLE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM.” INT. COURTROOM -- DAY Will stands before JUDGE MALONE (40) being arraig: fairly uncerenonious, the courtroom nearly empty, save Will and.the PROSECUTOR. Lambeau walks in from the back. WILL y. THaxe is a lengthy legal preceden ‘Your Honor, going back to 1789, whereby & defendant may clain self-defense ine it of the government, @ the act is shown to be a defense inst tyranny, a defense of liberty-— The Judge interrupts to address the prosecutor. (CONTINUED) Jeczert9eEr ree? eezecezesz FasJUDGE MALONE Mz. Simmons, Officer McNeely who signed the complaint isn't in my courtroon. Why is that? PROSECUTOR He's in the hospital with a broken knee, your Honor. But I have depositions from the other officers. WILL Henry Ward Beecher proclaimed, in h: Proverbs From Plymouth Pulpit back in 2887, that “Every American citizen is by birth, a sworn officer of the state. Every man is @ policeman." As for the ther officers, even William Congreve aid; "he that first cries out ‘stop ‘oft he that has stolen the PROSECUTOR Your Honor-~ cranks it up. WILL (to Prosecutor) ~~ I am afforded the right to speak in ny own defense by our constitution, 5 The same document which guarant. right to liberty. “Liberty,” in you've forgotten, is "the soul right to breathe, and when it-cannot take a long laws are girded too tight- Without liberty, man is a syncope.” (beat, to Judge) Ibid. Your Honor. PROSECUTOR Man is a what? WILL Julius Caesar proclaimed "Magnatum vid a Victum"-- Though he be wounded-- ‘The_Judge interrupts. ane JUDGE MALONE Son, (a beat) My turn. The Judge opens Will's CASE HISTORY. ~~ (CONTINUED) om: P.ze easedJUDGE MALONE (CONT'D) (reading June, "93, assault, Sept. ‘93 assault... Grand theft auto February, ‘94 A beat, the Judge takes particular notice. JUDGE MALONE (CONT'D) ntly, you defended yourself id the cai thrown out, citing Property rights of horse and carriage” from 1798... Lambeau has to senile, impressed. The Judge shakes his head. JUDGE MALONE (CONT'D) March, ‘94 public drunkenness, public nudity, assault. 10/94 mayhem. Noverber '94, assault. Jan. ‘95 impersonating a police officer, mayhen, theft, resiating-- overturned-— The Judge takes a beat. Gives Will a look. JUDGE MALONE (CONT'D) - You're tn my courtroom, now and I an : aware of your priors. : it) EB = fare that you're an orphan. yn through six foster home: Fenoved you from three because ious physical abu The Judge holds a look to Will, who looks down. JUDGE MALONE {CONT'D) . Another Judge might care. You hit a cop, you go in. (beat) Motion to dismiss denied. Bail fifty thousand dollars. The Bailiff goes to remove Will from the courtroom. me int TUDGE MALONE (CONT'D) op workin’ on your argument: A word of advice for trials English. As Will is removed from the courtroom, Lambeau approaches Sudge Malone who is stepping down from the bench. LAMBEAU Excuse me, your Konor. (offers hand) Gerald Lambeau. tat (CONTINUED) Srezeresr ese? Ber64s20:Weenze-1987 34:47 ee1es: * 26. An awkward beat. Lambeau waits for some sign of recognition. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) I'm a professor at M.I.7. (beat) Physics. The-Judge offers only @ biank look. JUDGE MALOKE Oh. Pleased to meet you. ‘LAMBEAU Do you have a minute? INT. MIDDLESEX COUNTY JAIL, HOLDING AREA -- SAME A GUARD walks Will down a hallway toward a group of phenes. GUARD One cail, to an attorney. (beat) One. The Guard gives Will a hard look for a beat. Then leaves. WILL How many? Will picks up the phone, dials. WILL (CONT'D) Hey, Skylar? SKYLAR Yeah? WILL It's Nill, the really funny good looking guy you met at the bar? SKYLAR, I'm sorry, I don't recall meeting anyone who fits that description, WILL Okay, you got me. t's the ugly, obnoxious, guy who got drunk and wouldn't leave you alone all night. SKYLAR I was wondering when you'd WILL I figured maybe sometime this week we could go to a cafe and heve some caranels. (CONTINUED) F.2eSKYLAR Sounds good, where are you now? WILL You aren't, by any chance, Pre-law? Ara you? INT. MIDDLESEX COUNTY JAIL, INTERROGATION ROOM -- LATER Prof. by the ee Wen ze-1987 16:42 or Lambeau eits, waiting, Will 4a brought in, shackied, guard. LAMBEAD Hello. Gerald Lenbeau, M.z.7. WILL What do you want? LAMBEAU I've spoken with the Judge and he's reed to release you under my supervision. WILL {suspiesous) Really? LAMBEAU Yes. Under two conditions. WILL What're those? ‘LAMPEAU ‘That you meet with me twice a week-- ~ WILL --What for? LAMEEAU Go over the proof you were working on, get into some more advanced Physics. WILL Sounds like a real hoot. LAMBEAU The other condition is that you see a therapist. WILL Oh, come on. The judge you'ze to meet with me and a therapist (MORE) (CONTINUED) eesges2082 ” a26. LAMBEAU .(CONT'D) every week and I'm responsible to subnit reports on these meetings. If you fail to meet any of these conditions, the Judge told me you wiil have to serve time. WILL If I agree to this, I walk right now? ‘LANBEAU That's right. WILL I'l] do the work. I'm not gonna meet with a therapist. LAMBEAU Now, it won't be as bad as it sounds, wil, (beat) I've already spoken to one therapist, his name is Henry Lipkin and he's a friend of mine. He's also published four books and is widely considered to be one of the brightest men in his field. (oi I'm sure it'll be better than spending the next six months in jail. T. FUNLAND -- DAY 21 and Chuckie walk up to an enclosed trampoline. Billy iG Morgan prefer to use it for their own version cf “Wrestlemania™. As Will and Chuckie approach, Billy 4s on top of a bloodied Morgan and has him in the “Cobra Clutch". Will and Chuckie watch for a beat. Billy tightens his grip. BILLY Submit, bitch! Submit! Submit! MORGAK (being strangled) juck my cock. BILLY Oh Morgan! e:tushe.to Will, conspiratorially as they wait for the £ to: finish.” CHUCKIE What'd you get? You gat lieniency? WILL Probation, counselin', few days a week. a] (CONTINUED) Jaczei9e tees eeueesaee sm aiange 2s. CHUCKIE You're fuckin’ good. Smiles. : CHUCKIE (CONT'D) 2 Just submit, Morgan. He's got you in the Cobra Clutch. MORGAN (to Chuckie) Fuck your mother too! INT. WILL'S APARTMENT -- NIGRT Will sits alone in his one room apartment, roading. A closer 2ook reve: 1f-help PSYCHOLOGY BCOK. W432 is flipping through the book at about a page a second. He shakes his head and smil Upon finishing the book, he throws it in a nearky WASTEBASKET. Push in on the back cf the boos. Where a SMILINS PSYCHOLOGIST is pictured. INT. PSYCHOLOGISTS OFFICE -- CONTINUOUS 2 decorated Psychologist's office. Across 2 sits the same PSYCHCLOGIST, HENRY LIPKIN (40), from the book. They are in mid-session, WILL That's why I love stock-car racin'. That Dale Ernhart's real good. PSYCHOLOSIST Now you know Will, and I knox, what you heed to be doing. You have a gift. WILL : I could work the pit maybe, but I could never drive like Dale: ‘ PSYCHOLOGIST ~-You have a quality-- something you were born with, that you have no control over- and you are, in a sense, hiding that by becoming a Janitor. And I'm not, saying that's wrong. I'm friends with the Janitor that works in my building. He's b to my house for st dinner. As a matter of face T did GEL BomE FEee consultation for "Miker-- that's not his real name, That's in my book. WILL Yeah, I read your book. "Mike* had the same probleme as “Chad” the stockbroker. INUED}ae PSYCHOLOGIST: Yes. The pressures you feel, and again, I am neither labeling nor judging then, are keeping you from fulfiliing your potential -~ you're in a rut. So stop the Tom Foolery-- the Shenanigan's, Will. wr You're right. I know. PSYCHOLOGIST Will, you're not getting off that easy. WILL No, but, I mean you know...I do ether things. That no one knows about. PSYCHOLOGIST Like what, Will? WILL I go places, I interact. PSYCHOLOGIST What places? WILL . Certain, clubs. (beat) Like, Paradise. It's not bad. ves the Psychiatrist a furtive look. The Therapist responds with a look. WILL (CONT'D) It's just that feeling when you can take your shirt off and really dance. (beat) When the music owns you. Do you understand? PSYCHOLOGIST I might. WILL Do you find 4t hard to hide the fact that you're gay? PSYCHOLOGIST What? WILL C'mon, I read your book. I talked to you. It's just something I know to be true. PSYCHOLOGIST Well... x (CONTINUED) eeieas2ee2 cd atedSeerze-19s7 ere WILL Buddy, two seconds ago you were ready to give me a jump. PSYCHOLOGIST {a_asttie laugh) Weil, I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I'm married and I have two children. WILL ure you do. You probably got = 1. nice house, nice car -- your book's a best seller. PSYCHOLOGIST You're getting defensive, Will. WILL Look, man. I don’t care if you're Putting from the rough. There are Solid arguments that some of the et people in hi: dex the Great, Caesar, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Napoleon, Gortrude Stein, not to mention Danny Terrio, not many straight men can dance like that. If you wanna hit "Ramrod”, take your shot. Take some pride in it. You go to church? So fuckin’ what, God loves you. I mean, Christ. A guy as well known as you? ‘By the time’ you put your disguise on and sku:k ovt of the house Sunday nights you prob'ly look like "Inspector Cluseau” I The Psychologist calmly packs his things. . PSYCHOLOGIST Well, I can see this is pointless... WILL You're getting defensive And hey, Chief-- tell the least. Christ, set her fri The ahrink gets up and walks out. ae WILL (CONT'D) Fuckin' hypocrite... ivrFhauuwar -- cotmvous The Therapist comes walking out, much to the surprise of Lambeau and Tom who been waiting in the lobby. LAMBEAU Henry? (CONTINUED) om FzThe Therapist keeps walking. ay THERAPIST : = No. You know what, Gerry? This is , why I don't do pro-bono anymore. it's $ net worth 4t to me. : ‘LAMBEAU What happened? THERAPIST He I don't have the time. going on_ Rational televion this week. , LAMBEAU . Wait a minute, Henry... He de out the door, Lanbeay looks to Ton. INT. LAMBEAU'S OFFICE -- DAY Lanboau ts at the board, writing. Will fotlovs along. LAMELAT Can you see that. WILL Sort of. (beat) , That's what won you the Nobe2 Prize? , : LAMBERT ; Yes. Yes, that's it. WILL , (checks his watch) Ten-thirty. Can I go? ‘LAMBEAU You may go, if you like. Will gots his coat. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Will, you've managed to offend four of my colleagues so such that they refused to come Row, yor with the leading hypnotist in the country it week and I plan to sit in on the sessions, so I expect you to Zs Dehave appropriately. INT. LAMBEAU'S OFFICE -- DAY Will sits in a chair across from Lambeau and the AYPNOTIST. Lambeau's assistant, TOM (33) takes nots ‘The Hypnotist mall talk with Lambeau, who checks his watch. (CONTINUED) Wee zeri987 14:68 97% FueLAMBEAU Shall we start the, uh... WILL Yeah, when do I get my hypnosis. You guys been talkin’ for twenty minutes. HYPNOTIST Wil. We'll get to that. But « Why don't you go to sleep for He SNAPS HIS FINGERS and instantly Will his EYES CLOSE. The Hypnotist gives Lamb RYPNOTIST (CONT'D) Would you mind standing on one leg? head goes BACK a look. Will gets up and stands on one leg. Lambeau ie impressed. TIME cUt INT. LAMBEAU'S OFFICE -- LATER Will is reclining, eyes closed, in a trance-like state. The msod is more serious now. BYPNOTIST Okay, you're in your bed, Will. Now how old are you? 2 wine Savon. HYPNOTIST And what do you see? WILL . Somethin's in my room. HYPNOTIST What 1s it? RILL It's like a small figure, hoverin' Gettin’ clo: HYPNOTIST wi. Tt" touching me. Lambeau makes a sound. The Hypnotist shuahes him with his finger. He returns to his note-taking. : (CONTINUED;34. HYPNOTIST Where is it touching you? as WILL , Down there. (indicating genitals) And I‘m nervous. HYPNOTIST You don't have to be nervous, Will. Lambeau and the Therapist trade locks. ‘This 4s working. WILL "Cau Rot ready. ; (calming) But the figure tells me everything's gonna be all right. ‘Cause the figure’s , a Libra too. And we start dancin’ and , it's beautiful-- WilL breaks into song at full volume. WILL (CONT'D) , "AND CAN YOU FEEL THE LOVE TONIGHT!” ‘LANBEAU ' (getting up) Ok, Jes ~*~ The Hypnotist gets up and st heading towards the door. Weil 26 still singing from “The Lion King.” , LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Wait a minute, Barry. RYPNOTIST I have better ways to spend my time. ~ He 48 gone. Will stops singing, laughs. LAMBEAU Oh, for God's sake, Will. WILL Oh, come on! You're not pinnin' this , one on me. He left, I wanted to talk , to him for another twenty minutes. I : was havin’ fun. LAMBEAU I told you to cooperate with these People. WILL C'mon, that guy wae fuckin’ piece of work. ~ Will gets up and adopts a hypnotic persona in front of Lambeau. (CONTINUED) Din-2e-1987 am PezWILL (CONT'D) (spooky voice) into my eyee. I don't need FY 7 LAMBEAY "Get out, Wil. WILL Okay... Don't forget to get another therapist for next wook. ‘LAMBEAU That's enough. 4s out the door. Lamb TOM I called Mel Weintraub this morning, to check availability. u turns to Tom. LAMBEAU What's the point? TOM What do you want to do? ‘LAMBEAU > There is somebody... Toy Who 4s he? LAYBEAU He was my roommate in college. EXT. UMASS BOSTON CAMPUS -- DAY This 18 SEAN MCGUIRE'S "Therapy and Personal Growth” class. Emblazoned on the door is “root. 101" While the lecture hal: could hoid sixty students, there are less thar fifteen here today. Sean ire, lectures to the cl, in a resigned tone. Tires of teaching, tired of life, he finds himself ri signed to the tedium of teaching core classes to an indifferent student body Stan Establishing trust is the most important component in making breakthroughs with @ patient. Why? A beat. SEAR (CONT'D) MAUREEK'S only response 18 an enpty stare. (CONTINUED), , SEAN (CONT'D) Keep up the good work, Maureen. Vinnie? VINNIE looks up. VINNIE Because trust is an important thing. SEAN Don't bullshit me, Vinnie. Didn't your brother give you the notes? Okay. If a patient doean't trust you then they won't feel safe enough to be honest with yous-then there's no point to them being in therapy. It's like saying -- “Fine, come here and don't tell me a thing but go home feeling like you're doing something about your problems-~ and give me ay fifty bucks before you leave will yet!" He locks around the room for approval. No one is listening. SEAN (CONT'D) If you don't help them trust you-- then there's really no way you'll ever ~ get thes to sieep with you. And that Should be the goal of any good therapist. Insecure women, you know...nai2 ‘en when they're vulnerable, that's eivays been ry metto. The students less sp, See, I got Vinnie’s attention. Laughter. Sean starts to resume his lecture, when he notices LAMBEAU standing in the back of the room. There is an awkward Rorent. SEAK (CONT'D) Gerry. LAMBEAU Sean. = SEAN (to class) Well, it seers we're in the presence of greatnes: Professor Gerald Lambeau is a Nobel] Prize winner. 1986. Physics. The class turne to look at Lambeau. LAMBEAU eile. (CONTINUED) eezees2et2 ar FiteSEAN Okay, that's all for today. Try and get through Fernald by Monday. The class starts to pack up and file out. Larbeau approacies Sean whe steps down from the lectern. LAYBEAU Good to see you. SEAN Good to see you. LAMBEAU Is there someplace we can talk? EXT. HARVARD SQUARE -- NIGHT W412 and Skylar on their first date. They watch a stro! MAGICIAN doing tricks with a rabbit. The guy's tricks pretty good, but his on-atage persona could use some wo: He is incessantly repeating the phrase "this is tho rabbit, the rabbit really does the tricks." Will gives Skylar a ook and they move on. INT. CANDY STORE -- LATER Will and Skylar walk into a small candy shop. Wr I Just wanted you te know 2 2 kind of guy who makes good on a prowise. He indicates a shelf full of various car WILL (CONT'D) You're just lucky I didn't te2: yo: 1 wae gonna take you out for clam-flevored yogurt. She laughs. WILL (CONT'D) Want to my magic trick? SKYLAR Sure. wiite*polis out a bulging HANDFUL OF CARAMELS. = we WILL gonna make all these caramels SKYLAR Okay... W422 goes into ali manner cf hocus-pocus theatrics. Then shakes his hand wildzy, (CONTINUED)The trick doesn't pan out and the caramels go flying at: over the store. Skylar leughs. WILL 1t works better when I have my rabbit. INT, LOCKOBER RESTAURANT -- NIGHT Lambeau and Sean share a table at this exclusive restaurant. Blighty cut of place 4n his wrinkled sport coa LAMBERU I didn't see you at the reunion. SEAN I've been busy. ‘LAMBEAU You were missed. (beat) How long hi each other? it been since we've seen SEAN Since Janet died. ‘LAMBERU Two years. SEAN a I got your card. INT. HARVARD SQ. DINER: "TEE TASTY" ~~ LATE A FRY COOK hands Will and Skylar a pair of CHEESEBURS: SKYLAR Have you ever aeen ‘Annie Hall'? WILL What? SKYLAR It's a Noody Allen Movie WILL thats about how there's always this “tension on a first date where both people are thinking about what's going to happen with the whole ‘good night kiss’ thing, Will smiles. (CONTINUED)WILL dy don't ‘da SKYLAR (aughs) = You know what J mean. T know you've + at least thought about it. WILE SKYLAR Yes you have. You were thinking you Were gonna get a good night ki WILL (mock protest, No I wasn't... SKYLAR Yes you were. WILL I was kinda hopin’ to get "good night laid® but... I'l] take a ki that much. No I haven't She laughs. SKYLAR Oh, you wil2? WILD No... Iwas hepin' to get « SKYLAR Then why don't we Just gat it out cf the way. . He looks at hi WILL Now? Both of them have cheeseburger in their mouths. SKYLAR mouths full of burger. It's nice. A beat. SKYLAR (CONT'D) That had to be the worst good night kias... Wil2 Jaughs. WILL Hey, look lady, I'm just here for the free food. (CONTINUED)4c. She smiles. SKYEAR Free? WILL Hey, I spent al: my money on those carane: She laughs. INT, LOCKOBER RESTACRANT -- SAME Larbeau and Sean, having finished their meal. Lanbeau has been pitching Sean. SER I've been busy, Gerry. I got a full echedul LAMBEAU kid's special, Sean. I've nev anything like hin. SERN Not much free tine, Gerry. LAMBEAU Have you ever heard of @ man nened Ramanujan? : Sean shakes his head. SEAN Ni LAMBERU : He wae alive over a hundred years ago. He wae Indian. Dots, not feathers... Lambeau chuckles at his joke. Sear smiles slightly. LAMBEAC (CONT'D) So this Ramanujan lived in a tiny town in India where he came across an old math book, From this basic text he was able to extrapolate theories that had baffled mathematicians for years. a SEAN ed (remendering, unsure) Oh yeah, didn't he mail it to some-- ‘LAMBEAU right, Sean. He mailed it to or at Cambridge who immediately cognized the brilliance in his work and brought Rananujan to England. (HORE) {CONTINUED} RLAMBEAU (CONT'D) | ‘they worked together for the remainder of their lives, producing sone of the most exciting math theory ever done. Ramanujan's genius was unparalleled, Sean. Wo forma! education, no acce: to other works. Alone in a dirt floor nut in India. 7 But he's very de: Someone who can get through to him. A moment as Sean considers this. LAMBEAD (CONT'D) I need someons with your kind of background. SEAN My kind of background? LAMBIAU You're from the same neighborhood. SEAN How many people did you try before you came to me? ‘LAMBEAU (looks squarely at Sean) Five. Sean gives a slight, knowing smile. SEAN Who? Barry, Henry, Rick? LAMBEAU . (srdles) Just meet with the boy once o week. SEAN Can we do dt at my office? LAMBEAU That would be fine. The waiter comes with the CHECK, Each man reaches for it. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) SEAN Sean, pi I got it. LAMBEAU It's on the college. relents. eerecszerz42. EXT. UMASS BOSTON CAMPUS -~ MORNING Establishing shot of the sprawling, red-brick carp: land at nearby Logan airport. Wiil walks up the steps. Flenes INT. SEAN'S OFFICE--DAY Sean's\ office 4s comfortable. Books are stacked against the wail. Thero is a PAINTING on the wall behind Sear. Sean is ecated behind k. Lambeau sits in a chair in the back of the room, next to Tor. A long beat passes, they wait. LAMBEAT Any vulnerability he sen: exploit. hetai SEAN I'11 be okay. LAMBEAU It's a poker game with th: Don't let him eee what you! Sean nods. Will walks in. Everyone stands to greet Wir2. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Hello, Will. Any trouble finding this piace? young man. ye got. WILL No. ‘LAMBEAU Will, thie ds Sean McGuir: will Hunting. Sean and Wi12 nod. An awkward moment as the four men stan: LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Well, let's get started. WILL Yeah, let's let the healing begin. jd. Sean smiles at Will's joke. Sean, Lambeau is slightly embarr: SEAN Would you excuse us? se : LAMBEAU rg Toms oa SEAN You too, Gerry. Lambeau looks at Sean, surprised. Sean After an awkward At, Lambeau gos: alone evems moze 41 stare 4s unwavering. leaving Sean and Will than a second. He e216a92962 greThere is a long silence as Sean watches Will. SEAN (CONT'D) a Hello, Will. I'm Sean McGuire. 2 A smite crosses Will's face as he walks to his chair and sits. He Lights @ cigarette. Sean continues to watch hin. Fanalsy: : win I like what you've e with the place. i Did you buy all these books retail, or do you send away for like a ‘shrink t kit™ that comes with all these volumes Ancluded? SEAN et Have you read all these books, Will? t WILL ' Probaby not. SEAN , (indicating a shelf) How "bout the ones on that shelf? Will's eyes flicker up to the shelf for an instant. , » WILL ’ » Yeah, I read those. SEAN can What did you think? ee WILL I'm not here fer a fuckin' book report. They're your books, why don't you read ten. . ) SEAN I did. WILL ‘That must have taken you a long time. SEAN Yeah, it did take me a long time. ys. thisewith pride. His determined stare and confident teh Will a bit off guard. Will rises from his chair to, the shelf. WILL (looking at a book) "A History Of The United States, Volume I", If you want to read a real history book, read Howard Zinn's "A People's History Of The United Stat. + That book will knock you on your : (CONTINUED) sesne4a. SERN It will? WILL You people baffle me. You spend all this money on beautiful, fancy books-- and they'ze the wrong fuckin’ books. SERX You think 30? WILL Whatever blows your hair back. we. 2 returns to his chair. Pause. SERK (indicating cigarette) Guy your age shouldn't smoke so much. WILL You're right. Tt really way of my Jazzercizing. n does not seem at all affected by Will’, ‘ains behind the big desk with almost face. Will ds aware of Sean's confidenc WILL (CONT'D) Do you 14ft? ts in the attitude. He half srile on his SEAK Yes, I do. WILL Nautiius? SEAR _ Free weights. WILL Oh yeah? Me toc. What do you bench? SEAN 325. WILL on. up again and moves around his chair to Sean's It is a picture of an old sailboat in a tremendous no means a masterpiece, Will atudies it. WILL (CONT'D) You paint this? SEAN Yes. What do you think? (CONTINUED) 226482!WILL Poor color composition, lousy usi apace. But that shiz doean concern me. SERN What does? WILL You ever hear the saying, “any port in a atorn*? SEAN Sure. WILL Well, maybe that means you. SERN Maybe what mea WILL Maybe you were in the middle of a storm, a big fuckin’ storm-- the waves were crashing over the bow, the Goddamned mast was about to snap, and you were cryin’ for the harbor. S0 you dia what you had to, to get out. Maybe you became a psychiatrist. (A beat) Or maybe you married the wrong woma: SEAN Hey, now-- That's it isn't it? You married the wrong woman. There is a slight paui as the two stare at one another. WILL (CONT'D) She leave you? Sean is trying to contain himself. WILL (CONT'D) . How are the seas now, Doc? In acfiaeh, Sean ie out of his chair, around his desk and ir Will"e face. He holds him by the collar. SEAN You watch your mouth! Don't you ever patronize me! I don't care what you do! But when you open your mouth to speak to me you do 60 with respect! (CONTINUED)> 4e. Sean has not drawn @ single breath. He stands scething, st. holding Will. Will loo}: caimly at Sean, who lets gc of izing he's crossed the line. WILL Time's up. “WALLKAY -- CONTINUOUS Will walks out of Sean's office past Lambeau and Tom who are sitting in the Hallway. WILL » gentleman. 0 at INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY stands behind the desk in his office, stil] very much Lambeau waiks in. LAMBEAU Five minutes, 5 A pause, Sean 4s staring at his painting. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) dg Are you okay? I'21 understand if you don't want to > meet with hin again. SEAN Thursday, four o'clock. Make sure the kid 4s here. EXT. WONDERLAND RACETRACK -- DAY Will and Skylar sit in the stands watching the dogs run. SKYLAR ; Z don't know, dt was Just kind of the boring suburban thing. Private school, Harvard, and now Med. School. (beat) I actually figured out that at the end ef it, my brain will be worth a quarter of a million dollars. I shouldn't have told you that... WILL I bet: your parents were happy to pay. SKYLAR Iwas happy to pay. I inherited money. WILL Is Harvard gettin' all that money? SKYLAR Stanfo: I'm leaving in June after I gradual (CONTINUED) 3%WILL 20 you just want to use me and go? ‘SKYLAR 7 We2l, I'm gonna experiment on you for my anatomy class, then ge. WILL In that case, fine. SKYLAR So you grew up around here? WILL Not far from here, South Boston. SKYLAR How was that? WILL , Pretty boring, I guess. ; She sriles. , SKYLAR I bet you have e great family. WILL You know, nothing special. SKYLAR You have a lot of brothers and sisters? WILL D> I have a lot of brothers and exsters? SKYLAR . Yeah. WILL Well, Irdsh Catholic. What do you think? SKYLAR How many? WILL You wouldn't believe me if I told you. SKYLAR What; five? es his head. SKYLAR (CONT'D) Seven? 1 shakes his head. Smiles. (CONTINUED) eeiecszer4B. SKYLAR (CONT'D) Come on. ~ WILL I have twelve big brothers. z SKYLAR “2 Not @ chance. WILL Yup, you're lookin’ at lucky thirteen. SKYLAR Bulishit. WILL I swear to God. SKYLAR Your house must have been a zoo. WILL It was great. There was always someone te play with, give you advice. SKYLAR Do you know all their names? WILL "Course I do, they're my brothers. SKYLAR Werl. . WILL Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mixey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian. SKYLAR Qaughing) Do you keep in touch with then? WILL All the time. We all live in Southie. I live with three of ‘em now. Skylar smiles SKYLAR I want to meet them. WILL We'll do that. INT. SEAN'S APARTMENT -- NIGHT As Wo pan across Sean's small apartment, we find it streun with dirty clothes and the sink full of dishes. (CONTINUED) Tree" sm eez6a8208;+ ay. Although, 4£ it weren't for all the clutter, the place would feel pretty bare. A franed SPORTS ILLUSTRATED cov. turing @ screaming Larry Bird and entitied “CELTIC PRIDE" nangs on the wall. Sean aits et the table next to another nearly erpzy bottle. of BUSHMILL'S IRISH WHISKEY. He is deep in thought. INT. “SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Will strolls into the office. Sean is waiting there behind his desk. He seams different. More calm. Will and Sean etere at each other for a long moment. WILL You again. How's the paintin' coming? Sean stands up. SEAN Come with me. EXT. BOSTON COMMON -- MINUTES LATER Sean and Will sit in the bleachers at the mostly empty park. They look out over @ small pond, in which a group of Schoolchildren on a field-trip ride the famous Swan-Boats. WILL Bo what's with this place? You have a Swan fetish? Is this something you'd Like to talk about? SEAN I was thinking about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. I stayed up half the night thinking about it and then something occurred to me and I fel] into a deep peacefur @leep and haven't thought about you @ince. You know what occurred to ne? WILL No. SEAN You're just a boy. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. WILL Why thank you, SEAN You've never been out of Boston. WILL Ko. (CONTINUED) eerees2e82a Woak t ed you about art you could ~ give Kinny on every art beck ever written... Michelangelo? You know a lot about him I bet. Life's work, criticisns, political aspirations. But you couldn't teil me what it emezls like in the Sistine Chape2. You've never stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiiing. and if I asked f you about women I'm sure you could give me a syllabus of your personal favorites, and maybe you've been laid , @ few times too. But you couldn't tell me hov it feels to wake up next to a woman and be truly happy. 1f I aeked you about war you could refer me to a bevy of fictional and non-fictiona? dal, but you've never been in one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watched him draw his last breath, looking to you for help. And if I asked you about love I'd get a sonnet, but you've never : looked at a woman and been truly vulnerable. Known that someone could kill you with a look. That someone could rescue you fron your grief. That God had put an angel on earth just for you. And you wouldn't know how dt felt to be her angel. To have the love to be there for her forever. Through anything, through cancer. You wouldn't know about sleeping up in a hospital room for t holding her hand and not leaving because the doctors could in your eyes that the term "visiting houra" didn't apply to you. And you wouldn't know about real loss, because that only something you more than yourself, and you've never dared to love anything that much. I look at you end I don't see an intelligent confident man, I don't see @ peer, and I don't see my equal. I e @ boy. Nobody could possibly understand you, right Will? Yet you Presume to know so much about me because of a painting you sax. You must know everything about me. You're an orphan right? So it I -_~ Will nods quietiy. (CONTINUED) eezses2eezSEAN (CONT'D) Do you think 1 would presume to know the first thing about who you are because I read “Oliver Twist"? And x don't buy the argument that you don't want to be here, becai ‘think you like all the attention you're getting. ly, I don't care. Th nething you can tell me that I can't read somewhere else. Unless we talk But you won't do ‘re afraid of what you Soan stands, SEAN (CONT'D) It's up to you. And walks away. EXT. SOUTH BOSTON STREET -- NIGHT Rain pounds South Boston. Chuckie sits with the Cadillac idling, hunming to the radio. Morgan and Billy sit in the back, sharing a case of beer. Will is at a pay phone. SKYLAR Hello? Willi hangs up and runs back to the car, soaked. CHUCKIE Who'd you call? WILL Ne one. f didn’t have the number. MORGAN What are you, retarded? You went a2) the way out there in the rain and you n't have the number? WILL No, it was your mother's 900 nurber. I just ran out of quarters Laughter. Chuckie pulls away from the curb. MORGAN Why don't we get off mothers, I just got off you: There is a long moment of silence in response to Morgan's attempt at levity. Then aught BILLY You're a pretty funny guy. Here, have @ nickel. (CONTINUED) S20 eeieas2eszBilly WHIPS his EMPTY BEER CAN off of Morgan's head. MORGAN Keep fuckin’ with me. Watch what yo happens INT, SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Will sits acrose from Sean completely silent and takes out @ pack of cigarettes. SEAN No smoking. Will puts the cigarettes away. Sean, stares at Will and occasionally at the clock. Sean continues to check the clock _ on the wall. It ds the only clock in the roon and it ia BEEN? Wizl, Their hour 4¢ almost up. CLOSE ON: WILL'S EYES. INTERCUT WITH THE CLOCK. As the second hand crosses the twelve, out, leaving Sean alone. He 48 counting second Will stands up and wa: INT. HALLWAY -- LATER Landeau and Sean walk down the hallway after the LAMBEAU n “he didn't talk"? for an hour? ‘SEAN No, he just sat there and counted the Seconds until the seasion was over. It was pretty impressive, actually. ‘LAMBEAD Why would he do that? SEAR To show me he doesn't have tc talk to me if he doesn’t want to. LAMBEAU Oh, what is this? Some kind of staring contest between two kids from the “old neighborhood"? SEAN I wont talk first. INT. BLARNEY STONE BAR & GRILLE, SOUTH BOSTON -- NIGHT The bar is a bit more crowded than usual. Will and Chuckie walk back te their table, carrying beers, They pass a table 3: eereeszer2 ms FaeOne of the girls, KRYSTYN, smiles at Will] Who seems subdued. RRYSTYN WILL How you doin", Krystyn? They pass the tabie of girls. Chuckie looks at one, ruefuliy. cHUCKIE I didn't get on Cathy last night. WILL Why not? CHUCKIE I don't know. Chuckie turns back to the table of girls, calling out: CHUCKIE (CONT'D) Cathy! Why didn't you give me none of your twat last night? A girl at the table, CATHY, holds up her PINKY FINGER and sniles-~ revealing a mouthful of MISSING TEETH. CATHY Fuck you and your Irish curse, Chuckie! CHUCKIE She's mipein’ teeth, Will. Witl nods, net really into it tonight. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) Plus, it's like, five to two Morgan gnde up marryin' her. There's ony s0 many times you can bang your friend's future wife... They get to the table. Will's heart just isn’t in it. WILL Tim takin' off. goin’ late night. sa eS WILL tired. INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Will and Sean sit in silence. A long moment passes. IF dn his chair, disinterested. Will restlessiy An odd half e2r6cezee oe.A beat. 54. WILL You know, I was on this plane once. And I'm sittin’ there and the Captain comes on and is like "we'll be cruising at 35,000 feet", and does nis thing, then he pute the mike down but forgets to turn dt off. Then he says “man, a21 I want right now is @ blow-job and @ cup of coffee.” So the stewardess goes runnin’ up towards the cock-pit to tell him the mike’s still on, and this guy in the back of the plane goes don't forget the coffee!" SEAK (smiles) You've never been on a plane. WILL I knew, but the Joke's better if 2 tell it in the firet person. WILL (CONT'D) I have been laid you know. smiles. SEAK Yeah? You got a lady now? Yeah, How'd it go? : WILL Fine, SEAR Weil, are you going out egain? WILL I don't know. - SEAN Why not? WILL Haven't called her. SEAN Jesus Christ, you are an amateur. WILL I know what I'm doing. (MORE) (CONTINUED) Beises:Jerzen 2987 [rosy B WILL (conT'D) She's different fron the other giris I mat. Wo have a really good time. She's amert, beautiful, fun... SEAN So Christ, call her up, WILL Why? So J can realize she's not so : That she's boring. You don‘t get it. Right now she's perfect, I don't want to ruin that. + SEAN And right now you're perfect too. Maybe you don't want to ruin that. says nothing. SEAN (CONT'D) Well I think that's a great philosophy Will, that way you can go through you're entire life without ever having to really know anybody. looks directly at Will, who looks away. A beat. SEAN (CONT'D) yd to turn the alarm clock ax Sle wes late for work all the time in the middle of the night she'd rol] over and turn the damn thing off Eventually I got second clock and put it under my of the bad, but 1t got to where she was gettin: to chat one too. she was afraid of the dark, so the closet light Was on all night. Thing kept me up the night. Eventually I'd fai: out of sheer exhaustion and Up when I was supposed to e'd have already gotten to ny de SEAN (CONT'D) My wife's been dead tvo years, Wil). And when I think about her, those are the things I think about most. Little idiosyncrasies that only I knew about. Those made her my wife, And she had the goods on me too, Little things I do out of habit. People call these rfections Will. It's just (MORE) (CONTINUED)SEAN (CONT'D) And we get to choose who we're gcing to let into our own little worlds. You're not perfect. And let me save you the suspense, this girl you m dan't eitl The question is, whether Of not you're perfect for each other. You can know everything in the world, but the only way you're findin' that one out is by giving it a shot. You sure won't get the answer from an old fucker like me. And even if I did know, I wouldn't tell you. Will smiles. A beat. WILL Why not? You told me every othe: fuckin' thing. You talk more th: ahrink I ever met. any Sean laughs. SEAN I teach this ehit, I didn't say I knew how to do it. WILL You ever think about gettin’ remarried? SEAN My wife's dead. WILL Hence, the word remarried. SEAN : My wife's dead. . WILL Well J think that's a wonderfu: philosophy, Sean. That way you can go through the rest of your life without having to really know anyone. A beat. Sean smiles. wa SEAN “R. - Time's up. EXTSASKYLAR'S DORM -- AFTERNOON The door to Skylar's dorm ip partially open. Will stands outside while Skylar remains on the threshoid. SKYLAR Whore have you been? (CONTINUED) oa 87 FWILL I'm sorry, I been real busy. SKYLAR Iwas waiting for you to call. ee WILL Sorry. I'm sorry. Give me anoth crack at dt. Let me take you out. SKYLAR You should bave called, 1 bi Chem™ lab due tomorrow and it's Anpo! (beat) It's not an excuse dummy. J want te go out with you. But look: She holds up her Lab. Will glances at it. SKYLAR (CONT'D) an "O- Tomorrow? WILL Promise? SKYLAR If you bring the caramels. Will aniles. EXT. HARVARD SQUARE =- LATER Will sits in an outdoor cafe, thinking. After a be: o be leans over to two students working at e nearby tabic, borrovs @ pon and paper and starts writing. EXT. LAWN OUTSIDE LOWELL HOUSE -- LATER Will 4s zitary figure strolling across the lawn. He steps at Skylar's dorm and knocks on the door. She emerges. He hands her the paper he was working on. It is her O-Cher, lak. writ I couldn't wait tili tomorrow. BKYLAR gz. _ How the heli did you do that? ae %z WILL “HE Didn't your mother "2" te look a gift hor: SKYLAR I kind of need to learn this. WILL You're not going in to surgery tomorrow are you? jer tell you not in the mouth? (CONTINUED) FaeSEAN'S OFFICE = SKYLAR Wo. WILL Then let's go have some fun. smile, 6) Telents. DAY Sean and Will in session. Jeeeze-3987 1822 SEAN How'd your date go? WILL Do you still counsel veterans? (beat) I read your book last night. SEAN Ne, I don't. WILL Why not? SEAN I gave that up when my wife got sick. WILL Is that why you didn't write anything else? SEAN (aniles) I didn't write anything else ‘cause nobody, including most of my colleagues bothered to read the first one. WILL Well, I've read your colleagues. Your book’ was good, Sean. (beat) All those guys were in your platoon? SEAN Yeah. = WILL Wat happened to that guy from Kentucky? s SEAN Lon? He got married. He has a kid. I kind of lost touch with him after my wife got sick. WILL Do you ever wonder what your 1ife would be like if you never met your wife? (CONTINUED) 3 eeieaszeszJeemgenisem 38. SEAN What? Do I wonder if I'd be better off 4f I never mat my wife? Will, starts to clarify his question. SEAN (CONT'D) No, that's okey. It's an dmportant question. 'Ci you'll have your bad times, which you up to the good etuff you weren't paying attention to. And you can fail, aa long as you're trying hard. But there's nothing worse than regret. WILL You don’t regret meetin’ your wife? Why? Because of the pain I feel nox? T have r Will, but I don't regret @ single day I spent with my wit WILL When did you know she was the one? ‘SEAN October 21, 1978. Game six of the World Series. Biggest game in Red Sox history. Me and my friends slept out on the sidewalk all night to get tickets. We were sitting tno bar waiting for the game to start and in walks this girl, What was. Tie game in the bottom of the tenth inning, in steps Carlton Fisk, ~ hits a long f1y bal2 theld line. rty five thou on their feet, screanin' at the ball Fiok 48 runnin‘ up the int at the ball like a + It hits the foul pole, hore run. Thirty-five thousand peopli went crazy. And I wasn't one of then. WILL Where were you? SEAN Twas: havin’ a drink with my future wife.< WILL You missed Pudge fisk's home run to have a drink with a woman you had never met? (CONTINUED) ease60. SEAN : That's right. WILL So wait a minute. The Red Sox haven't won a world series since nineteen - eighteen, you out for tickets, gonna rt in twenty minutes, tke a girl you never seen before and you give your ticket away? SEAN You should have Lit up the room, WILL I don't care df Helen of Troy walked into that bar! That's game Bix of the , World Serii n this girl. she Sean smiles. : , WILL (CONT'D) ’ And what kind cf friends are these? They let you get away with that? SEAN I Just elid my ticket across the table and said “sorry fellas, I gotta go see about @ girl.” WILL "I gotta go see about a girl"? Wh: did they say? SEAN ‘They could see that I meant it. WILL You're kiddin’ me. SEAN Rot kiddin’ you. If I had gone to that game I'd be in here talkin’ about a girl I saw at a twenty years ago. And how I always and I don't regret the eighteen years we were married. I don't regret givin’ up counseling for ix years when she got sick. I don't regret being by her side for the last two years when things got real bad. And I sure as Hell don't regret missing that damn gane. Will dn impressed. ‘y ete No Will, I h bel (CONTINUED) Jew Bai9e7 e2x6ss28¢2WILL Would have been nice to catch that game though. SEAN Usreaking) “) Wel. heli, I didn't know Pudge was gonna hit the home run. They laugh. TIME DISSOLVE. INT. SKYLAR'S ROOM -- NIGET Will and Skylar in her room, post coital. They ere wrapped ina sheet. Nill is absent-mindedly playing the memory gare SIMON. The pattern grows increasingly complex. After a be SKYLAR Why do we always stay here? WiLL "Cause it's nicer than my place. SKXLAR I've never seen your pla WILL Exactly. SKYLAR Or your brothere? When do I get to meet ther? WILL They don't come over here that much. SKYLAR is I think I can make it to South Boston. WILL Aah, it's kind of a hike. SKYLAR wii. WILL All right, all right. We'll go. SKYLAR When? WILL Sometime. I don't know. Next week. SKYLAR What df I said I wouldn't sleep with yeu again until you let me meet your friends. (CONTINUED)WILL I'd say... (reaches for phone) it's only four in the mornin’, they're prob'ly up. She laughs. stops hir. SKYLAR I can wait ‘till tomorrow. INT, "BLARNEY STONE BAR & GRILLE" -- LATER Skylar and Will sit together Qiong with Wil1's gang. che boys are considerably drunk, but it makes for gocd entertainment. Everyone here is having fun, including Skylar. MORGAN Will, I can’t believe you brought Skyler here when wa're all wrecked. What's she gonna think about us? WILL Yeah, Morgan. It's a real rarity that we'd be out drinkin’. BILLY I've been shit faced for lixe two weeks. MORGAN Ch great, tell her that! Now she realy thinks we're problen. drinkers! CHUCKIE Two weeks? That's nothin’. My Uncze, Marty? Will knows him. That guy fuckin" drinks like you've never seen! . One night he was drivin’ back to his house on I-93-- Statie puile him ov ALL Oh shit. CHUCKIE Guy's tryin' to walk the line--but he can't even fuckin’ stand up, and so my uncle's night in jail. there's this fuckin' Bi like §0 yards down the road. some guy's car hit a tree. te MORGAN Some other guy? CHUCKIE Yeah, he was probably drunker than my o who fuckin’ knows? (MORE) (CONTINUES)CHUCKIE (CONT'D) ~ $0 the cop goes "Stay here, don't move!™ bes And he goes runnin down the highway tc 4 deal with the crash. $0, my Uncle a Marty's standin’ on the side of the a road for a little while, and he > fuckin' lit, that he forgets what he's i waitin’ for. So he goes, “Fuck it.” He gete in his car and drives home. MORGAN Holy ehit. CHUCKIE So in the morning, th & knock on the door it's the Statie. So my Uncle's like, "Ie there a problen?* And Statie's 1ike "I pulled you over and you took off." And my Uncie's like "z Rever, soon you before in ny itfe, 2 been home all night with my kids.” And Statie's 14xe “Let me get in your garage!* So he's like "all right, fine.” He takes around the garage and opens the door and the Btatie's cruiser is in my Uncle's garage. ALL No Way! You're kiddin’! CHUCKIE No, he was so hammered that he drove the police cruiser home. Fuckin’ lights and everything! MORGAN Did you're Uncle get arrested? = a amas wee -- e- e CHUCKIE - The fuckin’ Trooper was so enbarrassed he didn't do anything. The fuckin’ guy had been drivin around in my Uncle's ar all night lookin' for the hou: Everyone is laughing. Skylar speaks above the din. SKYLAR this Irish guy, walking down the beach one day. hin She has everyone's attention. Will is nervous. SKYLAR (CONT'D) And he came across a bottle, and this Genie pops out. , (MORE) (CONTINUED) 9764. SKYLAR (CONT'D) the Irishman and sed ne from ny prison, so I'll grant you three wishes.” BH The Irish guy thinks for a minute and says "What I really want is @ pint of Guiness that never empties." And-~ POOF! A bottle appears. He slams it down, and-- lo and behold-- it filis back up again. €/U ef Will. Hoping the joke pans out. SKYLAR (CONT'D) Well, the Irish guy can't believe it. He drinks it again, and againe= BOOM! It fills back up. So, while the Irish guy is marveling at his good fortun The Genie 4a getting impatient, because at's hot and he # to get on with "Let's go, you The Irish guy elams his drink again, it f41ls back up, he's still amazed. The Genie can't take it anymore. He says "Buddy, I'm boiling out here. What are you're other two wishes?” (beat) The izish guy looks at his drink, locks at the Genie and sa: "I guess I'll have two more of th The gang erupts with laughter. CHUCKIE It's a good thing no one's Irish here. MORGAN I'm Irish. Chuckie, Will lock at Morgan, baffled. EXT. BLARNEY STONE BAR 6 GRILLE -- LATER Everyone ig valking out, saying good-bye, Chuckie goes over to WHI and Skylar. 2 CRUCKIE - you came by, changed my opinion of Harvard people. SKYLAR See ye Chuckie. I had fun. Chuckie heads toward Will to say goodnight. (CONTINUED) 2525 ec6s525WILL I don't know what the fuck you're doin’. You're givin' us a ride. CHUCKIE What do I look like, Al Cowlins? (seriously) You want to take my car, drop her off? WILL I was countin’ on it. MORGAN Chuck, let's go. cHUCKIE You're walkin’ bitch, the car, 1's takin’ Morgan murbiee something and staggers off. B4l1y folicws with an indifferent shrug. WILL Thanks, Chuck. CHUCKIE Den't. yet too happy, you're takin’ me home tirat. : 2 don't knew, Chuck. It's kinda outta the way. CHUCKIE Just ‘cause you don't have to sleep in the one room palace, don't start thinkin’ you're bad. SKYLAR (to W422) I thought you said you'd show me your place. WILL Not tonight. CHUCKIE Yeah, not tonight. Not any other night. ‘I. He knowa, once you see that shit-nole 7” he's gettin’ dropped like a bad habit. SKYLAR I wanted to meet your brothers... Chuckio gives Will a curious look. WILL They're all aleepin' now, (MORE) (CONTINUED) Jeet. F.IE e2ieaszer2ee. WILL (conT'D) (a beat, to Chuckie) Let me get those keys. INT. FACULTY CLUB -- NIGHT A cocktail party 4s underway. Professors mingle with representatives from high tech companies. Lambeau stands holding a drink and surrounded by several RECRUITERS, Apparentiy he's the atar of the show. RECRUITER #1 What I want to know, Gerzy, is when we get to meet this wonder-boy. ‘LAMBEAU We're still working together, the boy's @ little rough, RECRUITER 42 @ of eccentric geniuses at Unitek. We know how to deal with that. RECRUITER ¢3 I think we all do. Laughter. RECRUITER 43 (CONT'D) Really, Gerry, where's he leaning? LAMBEAU We're looking at all of our opticns. RECRUITER #1 Ali rignt, Gerry. Close to the vest. (gives him hia card) Good luck with these vultures. He waiks off. Lambeau seems to enjoy all this attention. INT. TIM¥Y'S TAP -- SAME Tinmy's Tap is a local watering hole, not unlike the Blarney Stone. Sean is at the bar, telling a joke to TIMMY (45) the owner of the place, and several other REGULARS. SEAN $0 she goes runnin’ up the aisle and I figure “fuck it yell out “don't forgat the coffee! The men erupt in laughter. MARTY, one of the regulars pipes up. MARTY Bullshit! You didn’t say that! (CONTINUED) se F‘Timmy and Sean e: hange @ look. TIMMY Jesus Christ, Marty. It's a joke. Lanbeau enters, a bit overdressed in his sport coat and SEAN Gerry! Any trouble finding the place? LAMBEAU Not at all. SEAN Timmy this is Gerry, an old friend of mine. We went to college together. Tim Good to meet you. LAMBEAY Pleasure to meet you. SEAK Could we get a couple of sandwiches? Sean heads towards a table. Lambeau foliows. They sit LABEAD You're here quite a bit, then. SEAK I live right around the corner. LAMBEAU You moved? SEAK been here a couple years. There is an awkward moment. SEAN (CONT'D) You wanted to talk about Will? ‘LAMBEAU Seems like it's going well. SEAN I think so, LAMBEAU Well, have you talked to him at all about his future? SEAR We haven't really gotten into it. (CONTINUED) Serecgeerss" 182 ensecea i ForeJae Tinmy com ee. LAMBEAU Maybe you should. My phone's beer ringing off the hock with Job cffers. SEAK Jobs doing what? LAMBEAU Cutting edge physics. Think tanks, Sean. kind of place where a mind like Will's ds given free rein. SEAN That's great, Gerry, that there's Anterest-- But I'm not sure he's ready foz that. ‘LAMBEAU Sean, I really don't think you understand-- SEAN What don't I understand? over with the sandwiches. SEAN (CONT'D) Thanks, Tinny. LAMBEAU Excuse me, Tiny Could you help us? We're trying to settie a ber. TIMMY Uh-oh. LAMBEAU : ve you ever heard of Jonas Salk? TIMMY Yeah, cured Polic. LAMBEAU You've heard of Albert Einstein? Timmy smiles. Gives him a look. * LAMBEAU (CONT'D) ‘Wow about Gerald Lambeau? Ever heard of him? # TIMMY Nos LAMBEAU Okay thank you, Timy, TIMMY Se who won the bet. (CONT=RUED) s2zees22r>A beat. A beat. 69. LAMBEAT I did. Tinry leaves. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) This fen't about me. I'm nothing compared to this young man. (beat) 1905 the: were hundreds of sors who were renowned for their study of the universe. But it was a twenty-six year old Swiss Patent clerk, doing physics in his spare tine, who changad the world, Sean. Can you dmagine if Einstein had given that up? Because he had some “issues?” Or gotten drunk with hie buddies in Vienna every night? All of us would heve lost something. And I'm quite sure Timy never would have heard of him. SEAN Isn't that a little dramatic, Gerry? LAMBEAU No, Sean. This boy has that gift. He just hasn't got the direction. We can give that to hin. SEAK He married his cousin. ‘LAMBEAD no? SEAN Einetein, Had two marriages, both train-wrecks. The guy never kids, one of whon, I think, An an asylun-- w his ed up actly not the No one remembers that. They-- SEAN I do. ‘LAMBEAU Well, you're the only one. (conTinuzD) 3 7. BaA beat. A beat. 35:27 WO. ‘LAMBEAU (CONT'D) This boy can make contributions to the world. We can heip him do that. SEAN dust... take dt easy, Gerry. LAMBEAU Look, I don't know what else I can . I'm not sitting at home every night, twisting my mustache and hatching @ plan to ruin the boy's life. But it's important to start early. I was doing advanced physics at eighteen and 4t st421 took me twenty three years to win @ Nobel Prize. SEAN Maybe he doesn't care about that. LAMBEAU Sean, this is important. And it's above personal rivairy-— SEAN Now wait a minute, G LAMBEAU w7Ke, nc you hear me out, Sean. Thie young man ia a true predigy-- SEAN <-Personal rivalry? I'm not gettin’ back at you. LAMBEAU Look, you took one road and I took another. That's fine. yes Is it Gerry? ‘Cause I don’t think it's fine with you. Give him time to figure out what he wants. LAMBEAU @ Wonderful theory, Sean. It wonders for you. Lambeau gets up. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Sean, I came here today out of courtesy. I wanted to keep you in the loop. At we speak the boy is in a meeting I set up for him over at Unitek.: hae INT. UNITEK LABORATORIES, OFFICE -~ SAME ‘Three well dressed ONITEK EXECUTIVES sit around a confer: table, which is littered with promotional brochur m executives exchange a confused look. One of them spea 4 EXECUTIVE #2 (tentative) We22, Wild, I'm not exactly sure what you mean, we've already offered you a Position.. + Chuckie sitting across from the executives, down, wearing bia Sunday best. CHUCKIE Since this is obviously not my first time in such altercations, let me say this: Chucks "cash." The executives are baffled. rubs the tips of his fingers together, indicatins CHUCKIE (CONT'D) Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. The executives are completely blank. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) AL the current time I am looking at a nunber of different fields from which to disseminate which offer is most Pursuant aid to my benefit. beat) What do you want? What do J want? does anybody want? Leniency. EXECUTIVE #2 I'm not sure-- nces are mitigated. Right now. They're mitigated. Chuckie puts his hands up, as if getting a vibe from the room. EXECUTIVE #1 Okay... Chuckie points to the third executive. CHUCKIE He knows what I'm talkin’ about. The third executive 46 baffied. (CONTINUED) Waenze-29F 1S: ee16492952 mae P3822. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) A retainer. Nobody in this town works AN, without a retainer. You think you can find someone who does, you have my Dblessin'. But I think we all know that person isn't goin’ to represent you as well as I can. EXECUTIVE 2 Will, Our offer starts you at eighty- four thousand a year, plus benefits. ; CHUCKIE Retainer. EXECUTIVE #2 You want ua to give you cash right ’ now? CHUCKIE ‘ Alzegediy, what I am saying is your situation will be concurrently improved . af I had two hundred sheets in my pock right now. The executives exchange looks and go for their wal EXECUTIVE #2 Z don't think I... Larry? ae EXECUTIVE #2 I have about seventy threo... EXECUTIVE #1 Will you take a check? , CHUCKIE What do you think I am, a juvenile? ‘ You don't got any money on’ you right now. You think I'm gonna take a check? . EXECUTIVE #3 , It's fine, John, I can cover the rest. 1 CHUCKTE That's right, you know. (turns to 41) i = He knows. = , Chuckie stands up and takes the money. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) (to exec #1) You're et. I don't know whi your reputation ia, but efter hit you tried to pull today, you can bet T'll be looking into it. et (MORE) (CONTINUED) Jeezen: cs eeieasz08273. CHOCKIE (CONT'D) Any conversations you want to have with me heretofore, you can have with my attorney. Gentlemen, Keep your ars to the grindstone. ‘AU BON PAIN COURTYARD, HARVARD SQUARE -- DAY Will and Skylar sit in the open courtyard of this Harvard Square eatery. Skylar is working on another O-Chem lab. Will sits across from her, slightly bored watching her work. een 26~1997 38:28 WILL How's it goin’? SKYLAR, Fine. WILL Want me to take a 100k? SKYLAR Ro. WILL All right, lot's hang out here ali day. SKYLAR Witi... WILL C'mon, give ne the battin' cag Peek and we'll go to SKYLAR 7 I'd kind of like te learn something. It is important to me. WILL Why is that important to you? If I inherited all that money, the only thing important to me would be workin‘ on ay aving. ae SKYLAR Yeah, Will. I do have an inheritance. You know what it is? Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That's exactly what 4t'11 cost me, minus about five hundred bucks, to go all the way through mad school. I could heve done anything I wanted with this money, I could have been the blond girl in a Porache with money to spare. (CONTINUED) eci6aszes2 om Par~ / A beat. ‘ , ' s , , ~ ’ , ; & se ae n~ Je-2e-1987 15:28 ILL Instead you're gonna bust for five years a0 you can SKYLAR No, 80 I can be a doctor. Will nods. SKYLAR (CONT'D) 50, me ask you a question? Dc have a photographic memory? WILL. I guess. I don't know. Bow do you xenenber your phone number? SKYLAR Have you ever studied organic cheristry? WILL Sone, a little. SKYLAR Just for kicks? WILL I guess so. SKYLAR How did you do that? I can't... Mean even the sxartest people Z know, and we do have a few at Harvard, havo to study-- a lot. (beat) Listen, Will, if you don't want to tell me-- WILL Do you play the piano? SKYLAR Come on Will. I just want to know, WILL I'm tryin’ to explain it to you. So you play the piano. When you look at the keys, you music, you see Mozart. SKYLAR I "Hot Cross Buns", but okay. WILL Well all right, Beethoven. He looked at a piano and saw music. The fuckin’ Quy was deaf when he composed the ode to Joy. (MORE) (CONTINUED) | eereas2esz 37% FezWILL (conT*D) They had to turn him around to take a bow ‘cause he didn't hear the crowd goin' crazy behind him. Stone deaf. He saw all of that music in his head. SKYLAR So, do you play piano? WILL idck. I look at a piano and black and white keys, three pedals and a box of wood. Beethoven, Mozart, they looked at it and it just made sense to them. They saw a piano and they could play. J couldn't paint you a picture, I probably can't hit the ball out of Fenway Park and I can't play the piano-- SKYLAR =-But you can do my O-Chen lab in under an hour, you can-= WILL cWhen it came to stuff lixe that 1 Could always just play. epte this. SKYLAR I've been here for four years and 1 don't mest you ‘tii now. (beat) I'm going to California in two months, Will. Have you ever been to California? T bet you'd like it. . A beat. SKYLAR (CONT'D) W121 freoz Maybe not. INT. CHUCKIE'S APARTMENT -- DAY Chuckie s; ‘on his couch, watching cartoons in his boxers t, ng ci + The doorbell rings. He site. Get it, Ma! Sho doesn't. He gets up. oper door. It's Skylar. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) (aurprised) Hey. SKYLAR Ha. (CONTINUED) VereZe-2997 18:25 eereeszesz a Foe?Te. CHUCKIE How you dein’? SKYLAR Good. An awkward beat. CHUCKIE How'd you know where to find me? SKYLAR (amil You were the only Sullivan in the phone book. Chuckie snil SKYLAR (CONT'D) Will and I dropped you off here, remender? CHUCKIE On, right. SKYLAR This is your house, right? Chuckie nods and is about to respond when he is interrupzez by a nagging shriek from his mom, CHUCKIE'S MOM (0.S.) Get in here, Chuckie! CHUCKIE (calling back) Pipe down, Ma! SKYLAR, I guess ac. CHUCKIE What? No. This 4s my mother's house. I don't live with my mother. I just stop by, help out. I'm good like that. SKYLAR Is this a bad time? CHUCKIE. Pa She can wait. SKYLAR Okay. cHuckiE If she starts yellin‘ again I might have to run in real quick and beat her with the stick again but... (CONTINUED)SKYLAR Okay. cHUcKIE Let's take @ walk, EXT. CHUCKIE'S STREET -- DAY Chuckie, st42] in his boxers walks with Skylar who is talk: SKYLAR See, now this doesn't fee2 right. (beat) When I made the decision to come over here it felt right. I had all these Fationalizations... I just don't ‘and why Will never tells ne anything, he won't let me get close to him, he tells me these weird lies and I just wanted to find out what was going on...But now that I'm here it Seems strange, doesn't it? CHUCKIE, Well, I don't have no trouserz on... She laughs. A beat. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) I know why you're here. talk much. 2 don't. SKYLAR I don't care what his family's like or if he doasn’t have any brothers, but he doesn't have to lie to me. CHUCKIE I. really don't know what to Bay. Look, I lie to women all the time. That's Juat ay way. (beat) Last week Morgan brought these girls down from Roslindale. I told them I @ cosmonaut. They believed me. But. Will's not Usually like that-- MAN ON PORCH Put some clothes on, Sullivan! CHUCKIE Take it easy fathor! She laughs. (CONTINUED) sei6cs29s2 se: PesCHUCKIE (CONT'D) y is; I known Will a long en him with every girl with. But I've never geen him like this before, ever with anyone, like how he is with you. SKYLAR Is that true? CHUCKIE Yeah. it is. INT. LAMBEAU'S OFFICE -- DAY Lambeau goes over Will's proof. LAMBEAU This, This 4s correct. WILL I changed a few-— LAMBEAU I see you used MeLulien here. This shoul in theory ite - this changes... WILL (oeeting up) Wel, look it over. I'm pretty sure right. (turning back) Can 1 ask you a favor, can we do this at si from now on? work to come here commute is That's fine, but did you ever think-~ WILL It's. right. (a deat, heading out) Take it home with you. od LAMBEAU W422, what happened at the Unitek meeting? oe : WILL I couldn't go 'cause I had a date. 50 I sent my chief negotiator. LAMBEAU. W422, on your own time, you can do what you like. (MORE) (CONTINUED)vf LAMBEAU (CONT'D) When I set up a meeting, with ny associates, and you don't show up it reflects poorly on me. F WILL = Then don't set up any more meetings. LAMBEAU 1°12 cancel every meeting right now. 3'11 give you a job wanted you to WILL =-Maybe I don't want to spend my life sittin’ around and explaining shit to People LAMBEAD you can do is show me a little appreciation. When I found you, you were in jail. WILL proof) jow fuckin’ easy this is tc me? This is a joke (crumples proof) And I'm sorry you can't do this. 1 Feally an. ‘Cause if you could Z wouldn't be forced to watch you funbie around and fuck it up. LAMBEAU Sure, then you'd have more tine to sit around and get drunk. Think of how many fights you could have been in by now, You're right, Will. I.can't do that proof and you can. And when it comes to this there are only twenty people in the world that can tell the aifference between you and me. But I'm one of ther. WILL Merl, I'm sorry. ie * LAMBEAU = So am I. “" Qbeat) Yes. That's right, Will. wish I never met you. Because then I Could sleep at night. I wouldn't have to walk around with the knowledge that Someone like you out there. And I wouldn't have to watch you throw it all away. (CONTINUED) See2e01987 8 sezeeszesz 7: FlerLambeau gathers his composure and calmly walks over tc the wrinkied proof. He picks it up, smooths it out. INT. SKYLAR'S ROOM -- NIGHT Will and Skylar lie dn bed. Skylar watches Will sleep. Jeezan1987 15:32 SKYLAP. Will? Are you awake? WILL No. SKYLAR Come with me to California. WILL What? SKYLAR you to cone with me. WILL How do you know that? SKYLAR Iknow. I just do. WILL Yeah, but how do you know? SKYLAR Idon't know. I Just feel it. WILD And you're sure about that? SKYLAR Yeah. I'm sure. WILL ‘Cause that's a serious thing you're seyin'. I mean, we might be in California next week and you could find out somethin’ about me that you don't like. And you might feel like hey this is a big mistake.” {getting ups ) : it back, ‘cause you ious and you take somethin’ like that back I'm in California, ‘cause you asked mo to come, But you don't really want me there. And I'm stuck in California with someone who doe: (CONTINUED) eeiess2es2 FaeSKYLAR “Take-back?" What is that? I don't want a teke-back. I want you to come to California with me. WILL I can't go out to California. SKYLAR Why not? (beat) Look, Will 4f you're not in love with me, you can say that. WILL I'm not sayin’ I'm not in love with you. SKYLAR ‘Then what axe you afraid of? WILL What do you mean “what am I afraid ofr" SKYLAR Why won't you come with me? What ar you eo scared of? WILL What an I so scared of? SKYLAR Well what aren't you scared of? You dive in your safe little world where nobody challe shitless to do WILL s-Don't tell me about my world. You're the one that's afraid. You just want to have your little fling with the guy from the other side of town and marry-- jes you and you're thing SKYLAR Is that what you think-- ie WILL ‘some prick from Stanford that your parents will approve of. Then you'll ait around with the rest of the trust- fund babies and talk about how you went alummin' too. SKYLAR I dnherited that money when I was thirteen, when my father died. (CONTINUED) ee16aszeez FiatWILL At least you have a mother. SKYLAR Fuck you! You think I want this? =:. That _poney's a burden to me. Bvery day I wake up and I wish I could give that back. I'd give everything I have back to spend one more day with ay her. But that's life. And I deal with it. So don't put that ehit on me. You're the one that's afraid. WILL What the fuck am I afraid of?! SKYLAR You're afraid of me. You're afraid that I won't love you back. And guess what? I'm afraid too. But at least 2 have the balls to give it a shot. At st I'm honest with you. WILL I'm act honest? SKYLAR What, about your twelve brothers? WILL Ok, 4s that what this 4s about? You want to hear that I don't really have any brothers? That I'm a fuckin’ orphan? Is that what you want to hear? SKYLAR Yes, Will. I didn't even know that. . WILL No, you don't want to hear that. SKYLAR Yes, I do, Will. WILL You don't want to hear that I got cigarettes put out on me when I wes a # Aittle kid. That this isn't surgery Wi ifts his shirt, revealing s six inch SCAR on his torso. . WILL (CONT'D) You don't want te hear that. Don't tell me you want to hear that shit!! SKYLAR (MORE) Yes I do. (CONTINUED) Jan-ze-1997 15: 8 " ee1ges2982 PstSKYLAR (CONT'D) Did you ever think that maybe I could heap you? Thst maybe that’s the point, that we're a tear? is WILL What, you want to come in here and Save 'me? 15 that what you want to do? Do I have a eign that says “save me” on my back? SKYLAR I don't want to "save" you. I just Want to be with you. I love you. I love you! Will, full of self-loathing, raises his hand to strike her. WILL Don't bullshit me! Don't you fuckin' bullshit me! A beat. Wi22 just stands there. SKYLAR (standing up to him) You know what I'want to hear? to hear that you don't love m you tell me that, then J'12 Alone. I won't ask any qu T won't be in your 1ife. A beat. Wil? looks Skylar dead in the eye. Lowers his ha: WILL I don't love you. He walks out. INT. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY, OFFICE -- DAY Will site across from two N.S.A. AGENTS, OLIVER DYTRESS and ROBERT TAVANO. These guys are smug, clean cut, gung-ho and looking sharp in twin navy blue suits. WILL y So why do you think I should work for the National Security Agency? DYTRESS = Well, you'd be working on the cutting ~ edge, Btuff you couldn't do anywhere else because it's classified. String theory, Chaca Math, quantum physics-- WILL Codebreaking. (CONTINUED) eezer1997 15:32 sereaseeez FS:we DYTRESS That's one aspect of what we do. WILL Come on, that's what you do. You handic more than eighty percent of the (+. dntelligence workload. You're seven times the size of the C.I.A. DYTRESS That's exectiy right Will, 50, the question see it, don't *why should you work for Tytsea.s) it's ‘why shouldn't you?” WILL Why shouldn't I work for the Natio Security Agency? That's @ tough one Will bites his tongue, trying to make this work. INT. CRUCKIE'S HOUSE -- DAY Chuckie, Billy and Will sit in the Sullivan kitchen. Billy cracks open a beer and Chuckie reads the. sports page. Both boys are smoking. Will drinks a beer, distractedly. We hear the faint music track and soft moans of a PORNO MOVIE emanating from a back room. After a beat, Chuckie looks up. CHUCKIE Mczgan, if you're watchin’ pornos in y mom's roor. again I'm gonna give you a fuckin' beatin'! After a beat, Morgan comes out of the back roor, red-faced. MORSRY - (innocently) What's up guys? CHUCKIE - Why don't you beat off at your house? MORGAN I don't have a VCR at my hou! Will pays no“attention to this exchange. exrsoury BoszON PAY PHONE -~ DAY on pay phone talking to Skyler. WILL I just wanted to call before you left. (beat) I'm takin’ all these job interviews. So I won't just be a construction worker. (CONTINUED) e2sges2st2SKYLAR I never cared about that. An awkward beat. WILL Yeah. SKYLAR I love you, Will. (pause) Mo take-backs. Will says nothing. SKLAR (CONT'D) wana? A beat. WILL Take cai BKYLAR Goodbye. Will hangs wp. Hold on hin for an agonizing be: INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Lambeau is acribbling away at work. Will is tapping hie fingers, waiting for him to finish. LAMBEAU Iocan... I'm almost there. INT. LOGAN AIRPORT TERMINAL -- SAME Skylar stands at the gate, carry-ons in hand. Her flight is boarding. She looks for Will over the-crowd. curt INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- SAME Will picks up a FRAME from Sean's desk. It is CARLETON FISK'S BASEBALL CARD. Will has to smile. Lambeau looks up. ‘LAMBEAU Poe What are you smiling at? Aa <. WILL It's a Carleton Fisk baseball card. Will can s that Lambeau wants more. WILL (CONT'D) Pudge Fisk. You follow baseball? (CONTINUED) Jereze-1987 15:32 ee1gusz082 PSEJeneze-1987 6 LAMBEAU No. INT. LOGAN AIRPORT TERMINAL -- SAME The final boarding boards. After a Di 11 is announced and the last passenger it, Skylar turns and gets on-the plane. CUT BACK To INT, SEAN'S OFFICE -- SAME Will, holding the card, reflects for a beat and puts it down. WILL On, well, £t's just somethin’ Sean told It's & long story. R beat. WILL (CONT'D) You all set? LAMBEAU I've got the first part. The rest I can do at home. gets up. - LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Will, the N.S.A. has been calling me Just about every hour. They're very excited about how the meeting Landeau is excited. Will clearly is not. WILL Yeah, 5 INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- LATER Wild sits across from Sean. SEAN So you might be working for Uncle Sar. WILL I don't know. SEAN a e = Garey ys the meeting went well. : Abeat! a What did you think? WILL What did I think? A beat. Will has obviously been stewing on this. (CONTINUED) eez6as2ee2 Piss1S:33 WILL (CONT'D) Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can br @ shot at it and maybe happy with myself, ‘cause I did my job well. But maybe that code wae the location of some rebel arny in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bosb the villa re the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never had a probler with get killed. ( wa: they don't give a abit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin’ shot. Just like it wasn't them when their nunber got called, ‘cause they were pullin’ a tour in the National Guard. 1t'l2 be some guy from Southze takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes home to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to tho country he just got back from. Ard the guy who put the shrapnel in his aes got his old job, ‘cause he'll work fox £4fteen cents a day and no bathroor. breaks. Meanwhile my buddy from Southie realizes the only reason he was over there was sc we could install a government that would sell us of] at a good prise. And of course the oi] Companies used the skirmish to s up 041 prices so they could turn quick buck. A cute, little ancillary Denefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And naturally they're takin’ their . tame bringin’ the o4] back and maybo even took the liberty of hiring an icoholic skipper who likes to drink seven and sevens and play alalom with the icebergs and it ain't too long 'til he hits o1 ills the oil, and kills all the sea-life in the North Atlantic. $0 my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive so he's got to walk to the job interviews which Sucks ‘cause the shrapnel in his asa ia givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' cause every time he tries to got a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin‘ ie North Atlantic serod with Quaker tate. (CONTINUED)A beat. WILL (CONT'D) So what'd I think? I'm holdin‘ out for somethin’ better. I figure I'12 eliminate the middle man. Why not ust shoot my buddy, take his job and Give it to his sworn enemy, hike up Gas prices, bomb e village, club a aby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? Christ, I could be elected President. SEAN Do you think you'ze alone? WILL What? SEAR Do you have & soul-mate? WILL Define that. SEAN Someone who challenges you in every wey. Who takes you places, opens things up for you. A scul- mate. WILD Yean. Sean waits. WILL (CONT'D) Shakespeare, Nietzche, Frost, O'Connor, Chaucer, Pope, Kant SEAN They're all dead. WILL Not to me, they're not. SEAN ‘But. you can't give back to then, Will. WILL Not. without a heater and some serious ‘smelling 1 BOsee SEAN That's what I'm saying, Will. You'12 never have that kind of relationship in a world where you're afraid to take the first step beca 1 you're seeing are the negative things that might happen ten miles down the road. (CONTINUED) ere2e-1987 15536 ee6aszesz fareae ) A beat. A beat. WILL Oh, what? You're goin’ to take the Professors side on this? SEAN Don't give me your line of shit. WILL I didn’t want the job. ‘SEAN It's not about thet job. not saying you should work for the government. But, you could do anything you want. And there are people who work their whole lives layin’ brick so their kids have a chance at the kind of opportunity you have. What do you want to do? WILL I didn't ask for this. SEAR Nobody gets what they ask for, Will. That cop-out. RILL Why ds dt a cop-out? I don't see anythin' wrong with layin' brick, that's somebody's home I'm buildin', Or fixin' somebody's car, semeaody's gonne get to work the next day ‘cause of me. There's honor in that. SEAR You're right, Will. Any man who takes @ forty minute train ride so those college kids can come in in the morning and their floors will be clean and their trash cans will be empty is an Wild says nothing. SEAN (CONT'D) And when they get drunk and puke in the sink, they don't have to see it. the next morning because of you. That's eal work, Will. And there ds honor in that. Which I'm aure is why you took the job. (CONTINUED) ee16as2052 BSEAN (CONT'D) I Just want to know why you decided to around at night, writing or Chalkboards and lying about i, at) there's no honor in that. “cau Will is silent. SEAN (CONT'D) Something you want to say? n gete Up, goes to the door and opens it. SEAN (CONT'D) Why don’t you come back when you have an answer for me. WILL What? SEAN If you won't answer my questions, you're westing my time. WILL "1 Wi22 loses it, slams the door shut. WILL (CONT'D) Fuck you! Sean has finally gotten to Will. WILL (CONT'D) Who the fuck are you to lecture me about life? You fuckin’ burnout! Where's your ‘soul-mate'?! Sean lets this play out. WILL (CONT'D) Dead! She dies and you just cash in your chips. That's a fuckin’ cop-out! SERN I been there. 1 played sy hand. WILL That's right. And you fuckin’ lost! And some people would have the sack to lose a big hand like that and still come back and ante up again! SEAN Look at ma. What do you want to do? A beat. Will looks up. (CONTINUED) Seer 2e-1987 15:75 eeiseszeez feeSEAN’ (CONT'D) You and your bullshit. You got an anower for everybody, But I asked you @ straight question and you can't give me a straight answer. Because you don't know. Sean ‘goes to the door and opens it. Will walks out, INT. MAGGIORE BUILDER'S CONSTRUCTION SITE-- DAY Will and Chuckie take crowbars to a wall. This is what they do for a living. As they routinely hammer away, Will becomes more involved in his battle with the wall. Plaster and lathing fly as Will vents bis rags. Chuckie, noticing, stops working and takes a step back, watching Will. Will is oblivious. INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Lambeau and Tom are in his office. Will 4s nowhere to be seen. Lambeau is on the phone. ‘LAMBEAU What I mean, Sean, is that I'm sitting in your office and the boy isn't here. Well, it's ten past three. (beat) An hour and ten minutes late. (beat) Well, 4f he doesn't show up and I have to file a report saying he wasn't here and he goes back to jail, it won't be on my conscience, Sean. : (beat) Fin He hangs up. Tor picks a FORM up off the desk. TOM should I do? ‘LAMBEAU The bey was here. A blank Look. wn : LAMBEAU (CONT'D) He came in, sat down and we worked together. Tou Okay. Tom understands, begins filling out the form.EXT. HANRAHAX'S PACKAGE STORE -- LATER Will walks out carrying a brown bag. He 45 f4lthy, having a just knocked off work. é ctr TO: EXT." MAGGIORE BUILDER'S CONSTRUCTION SITE-- PARKING LOT Chuckie 48 sitting on the hood of hie Cadillac, watching Ww: ecrose the street. Chuckie is covered in grime as well. Will starts walking towards Chuckie. As he draws closer, he heaves a can of Budweis good thirty yards, to Chuckie wh: es it routinely. ane Will takes @ seat next to Chuckie and they crack open their beers. Other workers file out of the site. They drink. CHUCKIE How's the wonan? WILL Gore. CHUSKIE What? WILL ent to medical school in omnia. CRUCKIE ivan Sorry, brother. (beat) I don't know what to tell ya. You know all the girls I been with. You been with ‘em too, except for Cheryl] Onzes which was a big mistake on your Part brother. - WILL Oh I'm sure, that's why only one of us has herpes. SHUCKIE Some shows aro worth the price of admission, partner. This gets a emai laugh from Will. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) My fuckin’ back 4s killin‘ me. SHEET METAL WORKER overheara this. SHEET METAL WORKER That's why you should'a gone to college. a 4 sereaszerz st Fe:t : ’ Jeeze-1997 18:38 WILL Fuck you. CHUSKIE Suck my crank. (to Will) Fuckin’ sheet metal pussy. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) 80, when are you done with those meetin's? WILL Week after I'm twenty-one. CHUCKIE Are they hookin’ you up with a job? WILL Yeah, sit in a room and do long divied for the next fifty yea: CHUCKIE Yah, but it's better than this shit. At least you'd make sone nice bank. WILL Yeah, be a fuckin' lab rat. cHUCKIE It's @ way outta here. WILL What do I want a way outta here for? I want to live here for the rest of ny life, I want to be your next door neighbor. I want to take our kids to Little league together up Foley Field. CHUCKIE Look: you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way, but in 20 years, if you're livin’ next door to me, comin’ over, watching the fuckin’ Patriote’ game and still workin’ onstruction, I*1) fuckin’ k112 you. And that's not a threat, that's @ fact. I'll fuckin* kill you. WILL Chuckie, what are you talkin’... CHUCKIE Listen, you got somethin’ that none of us have. (CONTINUED;INT. SEAN'S OFFICE Lambeau stands across from Sean, 18:3E Why de dt always this? I owe it to myself? What if I don't want to? CHUCKIE Puck you. You owe it to me I'm gonna wake up and I'1) and I'21 sti21 be doin’ this. And that's all right ‘cause I'm gonna make a-run at it. But ay best friend's aittin' on @ winning lottery ticket and he's too much of @ pussy to cash it dn. And that's bullshit ‘cause I'd do anything to have what you got! And a0 would any of these guys. It'd be a fuckin’ dnsult to us 4f you'ze still here in twenty years. WILL You don't know that. cHUcKIE Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up, and we go out drinkin’ or whatever and we few laughs. know what. the best part of my day is? The ten econds before I knock on the door ‘cause I let my jaf think I might get there, and you'd be gone. I'd knock he door and you wouldn't be there. You just left. Tomorrow fifty CHUCKIE (CONT'D) Now, I don't know much. But I know * that. DAY hing. ‘LAMBEAU This is @ disaster! I brought you in here to help me with this boy, not to run hin out-~ SEAN Now, wait a minute-- ‘LAMBEAU weAnd confuse him-- SEAN o-Gerry-- (CONTINUED) eergaszerz 9e FezJr ~2a~1997 15:36 LAMBEAD s-And here I am, for the second week in a row, with my professional reputation at stake-- SEAN Bold on! LAMBERD =-Ready to falsify documents because you've given hin license to walk away, fxom this. SEAN I know what I'm doing and J know why I'm here! LAMBEAU Look Sean, I don't care if you have a apport with the boy-- I don't care Af you have @ few laughe-- even at ny expense! But don't you dare undermine what I'm trying to do here. SEAN ‘Underrine?! LAMBEAU a gift and with that gift cones jonedbility. And you don't understand that he's at a fragile pcint-- SEAN He is at a fragile point. He's got problens-- ‘LAMBEAU What problems does he have, Sean, that he is better off as a Janitor or in jail or hanging around with a bunch of hoodiuns, whose only-- SEAN Why do you think he does that, Gerry? He can handle the wo: the pressure and he you. 7 he can handle obviously handled ‘SEAN Why 40 he hiding? Why is he a janitor? Why dosen't he trust anybody? Because the firet thing that happened to hin was that he was abandoned by the peop! who we Supposed to love him the mos: (CONTINUED) eeieeszesz Peese. LAMBEAU Oh, come on, Sean-~ SEAN shad why does he hang out friende? ause any one of kids would come in here and take @ bat to your head if he asked ther to. It's called loyalty! LAMBEAU oh, that's nice-- a chance to leave hin. years he's been alone becau: hne if you try to push him into this, it's going to be the same thing ai] over again. And I'm not going to let that bappen to him! ‘LAMBEAU Now don't do that. Don't you do that! Don't infect him with the idea that it's okay to quit. That's it okay to - be a failure, because it's not okay! Tf you're angry at me for being suctessfur, Zor being what you could have bee: SEAN --T'm not angry at you-- =-Yes you ar - You rei And I'm not going to spolog! success that I've had. tome. > for any SEAN --1 don't have any anger at you-~ Yes you do. doing what you could have don: yourself if you want Will to feel way.for the rest of his life, to feel like a failure. ~ SEAN That's it. That's why J do! come to the goddamn reunions! Because I can't stand the look in your eye when you see me! You think I'ma failure! 1 know who I am. I'm proud of whe I am. (MORE) (CONTINUED)SEAN (CONT'D) And all of you, you think I'm some kind of pity case! You with your sycophant students following you around. Ana your Nobel Prize! You walk into a oor now, your Nobel Prize walks in : Before you. You don't have to-- ‘LAMBEAU w-3a that what this 4s about, Sean? The Nobel Prize? Do you want me to go hone and get it for you? Then will you let the boy-- SEAN =-I don't want your Nobel prize. 7 don't give a shit about your Nobel Prize! I knew you when!! You and Jack on. Sanders. I knew you when you were homesick and pinply-faced and didn't know what side of the bed to pise onl ‘LAMBEAU That's right! You were smarter thar us then and you're smarter than us Row! So don't blame me for how your life turned out. It's not my favit. SEAK I don’t blame you! It's not about that! It's about the boy! ‘Cause he's a good kid! And I won't see this happen to hii I won't a you make LAMBEAU He won't be « failure! SEAN If you push him into something, if you ride hime- LAMBEAU You're wrong, Sean, I'm where I an today because I was pushed. And because T learned to push myself! = = SEAN i He's not you! A beat. Lambeau turns, something catches his eye. Sean t to look, I2'S WILL. Me is standing in the doorway. ceas WILL I can come back. (CONTINUED)LAMBEAU ~ No, that's fine, Witl. Iwas just There is an awkward moment as Lambeau gets his coat and leaves. WILL Well, I'm here. (beat) So, 4s that my problem? I being abandoned? That wae SEAN Look, a lot of that stuff goes back a Tong way. And it's between me and hin, and it haa nothing to do with you. WILL Do you want to talk about it? afraid of By. Sean amiles. A beat. Wiil sees a FILE on Sean's desk. | WILL (CONT'D) What's that? SEAN Oh, thie ie your fize: I have to send it’ back to the Judge with my evalu WILL 2 You're not gonna fat] me are you” Seen anties. WILL (CONT'D) So what's it say? SEAN . You want to read it? Ht 1 WILL Ko. (beat) Have you had any experience with that? . SEAN Yes: : WILL (ona Tt sure ain't good. SEAN (after a pause) My dad used to make us walk down to the park and collect the sticks he was going to beat us with. ~ (MORE) (CONTINUED) 3 e2i6 Jonoly souls being father and sen together. MONTASE: 1. Wai zides the Red Line, above ground. He looks out over ‘Small back yards, laundry hangé from wire link fences, overgrown with weeds. 2. Will walking through South Boston. He cuts through a park. A senior citizen 4s spearing trash for the city. 3. Will at home, Not reading. Looks up at the ceiling. 4. Nill walks up to a nondescript building, he walks through the glass doors, into the lobby. INTs. UNITEK LABORATORIES, RECEPTION -- CONTINUOUS walks into the lobby. A SECURITY GUARD looks up. SECURITY GUARD Can I help you? WILL Yeah, my name is Will Hunting. I'm here about « position. (CONTINUED) 98% Feesede: SECURITY GUARD One moment. The Guard reaches for the phone. DISSOLVE TO BLACK. FADE:UP to the eound of laughter. INT. "BLARNEY STONE BAR 6 GRILLE" -- DAY Chuckie is again regaling Will and the guys at their table. CHUCKIE On my God, I got the most fucked up thing I been meanin' to tell you. MORGAN Save it for your mother, funny guy. We heard it before. CHUCKIE Morgan. They both get up, in one another's face. This is a play fight. "you gonna start?” "You gonna pay my hospita: bilis?* WoL es Sorry to miss this. INT. BLARNEY STONE -- SAME Will comes bi fror. the bathroor. WILL (to Chuckie) You and Morgan throw? | CHUCKIE : No, I had to talk him down, WILL Why didn't you yoke him? CHUCKIE Little Mozgan's got a lot a scrap, dude. I'd rather fight a big kid, they never fight, everyone's scared of ‘em. You know how many people try to whip Morgan's ase every week? Fuckin’ kid won't back down. MORGAN (from across the table) What'd you say about me? CHUCKIE Shut the fuck up. (CONTINUED)Billy walks in the door and gives Chuckie a look. Chuckie turns to Will. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) (Te W422) Hey, asshole. Happy birthday. MORGAK You thought we forgot, didn't you? I know I'm gettin’ my licks in. Laughter ae the boya converge on Will. He goes willingly out the door. EXT, BLARNEY STONE -= CONTINUOUS As they come out the door, rather than beating Will mercilessly, they stop. Morgan goes into his own, persona: rendition of "Happy Birthday.” No one joins in. = CHUCKIE Shut up, Morgan. (to will) Here's your present. indfcates an old CHEVY NOVA, parked 412 gaily in front WILL a now that you got your you needed some way to get over there and I knew I wasn't gonna drive you every day... Laughter. CHUCKIE (CONT'D) Morgan wanted to get you a I” p: MORGAN No I didn't... Ni1L approaches t a car to take a closer look. CHUCKIE But, you're 21 now, s0-- ci BILLY s7Yeah, now that you can drink legally, we thought the best thing to get you was @ car. More laughter. Will inspects the Nova. (CONTINUED) 16:2 8226252962 om F233VV WILL You're kiddin’ me. (a beat) 5 the ugliest fuckin’ car I ever Laughter, = WILL (CONT'D) (verious) How the fuck did you guys do this? CHUCKIE Me and Bill scraped together the parts, worked on it. Morgan wae out panhandlin' every day. MORGAN Fuck you, I did body work. Whose fuckin’ fouter you think sanded out all that bondo? CHUCKIE Guy's been up my ass for two years about a fuckin’ job. I had to le help with the car. wr So, you finatly got a job Morgan? MORGAK Had one, now I'm fucked again. wr! (to Chuckie) .$o what do you got, « fuckin’ Ryunda: transplant under there? Can J make it back to my house? cHUCKIE Fuck you. I re-built the engine myse:!. That thing could make it to Hawai: if you wanted it to. Chuckie gives Will a look. Be, CHUCKIE (CONT'D) Heppy 21, will. HS OFFICE -- DAY WILL Over at Unitek. (MORE) (CONTINUED)WILL (CONT'D) one of the jobs Professor Lanbeau set up with. I haven't told him yet, t 1 talked to my new boss over there and he seened like a nice guy. ws SEAN That's what you want? WILL Yeah, I think Bo. ! . SEAN Good for you. Congratulations. WILL Thank you. (a beat) ‘ So, that's it? We SEAR ' We're done. You did your six months. i You're a free man. 0 done? A beat. ' WILL I just want you to know, se SEAR - : You're welcome, Will. WILL I'iL keep in vouch. SEAN I'm gonna trave: a littie bit, so I don't know wl I'll b Will amiles. : SEAN (CONT'D) ! I just... figured it's time I put ry money back on the table, see what kind of cards I get. Will smiles. . Sean hands hin a piece ee paper. te SEAN (CONT'D) SF. 112 be checking dn with my machine at - the college. If you ever need anything, = Just call. Sean artles. SEAN (CONT'D) Do what's in your heart, son. You'll be fine. (CONTINUED) B2:g282982 Ce Be 16:ics. WILL Thank you, Sean. They ombraci SEAN te No, Thank you, i: WILL (rerembrace) Does this violate the patient/doctor relationship? SEAN Only 4f you grab my asa. ‘They laugh. WILL See ya. SEAR Good luck. Beth mer srile. INT. HALLWAY OUTSIDE SEAK'S OFFICE .WAil comes out of 5 MOMENTS LATER - ‘s office and sees Lanbeas walking up. LAMBEAU (ourprived) wil. WILL Hey, how you doin’? LAMBEAU . You know, you're no longer required to come here, i WILL Twas just sayin’ goodbye to Sean LAMBEAU (CONT'D) (a beat) Sam called me. From Unitek. He says you start working for them next week. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) Well, that's, I think that's terrific. Congratulations. WILL Thank you. (CONTINUED) Teneze-1957 16:27log. LAMBEAU I Just want you to know... It's been a pleasure. WILL sf Bullehit. ‘They"laugh. ‘LAMBEAC Do it if it's what you really want. WILL I appreciate that. A moment. Will starts to go, Lambeau watches him for a beat, W421 turns back around. WILL (CONT'D) Hey, Gerry. LAMBEAU Yes. WILL Idsten, I'11 be nearby 90, 4£ you nesd some help, or you get stuck again, don't be afraid to give me a cell. LAMBEAC (has to srile) Thank you, Will I'll do that. W122 omties, turne and waike away. INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Sean is packing his office. Lambeau opens the doo ‘LAMBEAU Relic, Sean. ‘SEAN Come in. LAMBEAU So I hear you're taking some tine. (CONTINUED) Teezei987 16:23 eezses2es2 om Fewe ior. is SEAN Yeah. Summer vacation. Thought I'd travel some. Maybe write a little bit. LAMBERU Where're you going? SEAN I don't know. India, then maybe Thailand. LAMBEAU Why there? SEAN Never been. Larbeav nods. ‘LAMBEAC Do you know when you'll be back? . SEAN “(picks up « flyer tron his desk) I got this mailer the othe: Class of Sixty five is having this event in §ix months. LAMBEAU I got one of those too. SEAN You should come. 1'11 buy you a drink. Lambeau sriles. ; ‘LAMBEAU Sean... A beat. LAMBEAU (CONT'D) ‘The drinks at those things are free. SEAN I know that. = cs Bothen laugh. EXT. BANK OF THE CHARLES RIVER -- AFTERNOON Will site alone, thinking. We hold on him for an extend beat unti: © UP and walks away. hoctinen 2: sas2952 om Fitzi abe. Y BEGIN FINAL SEQUENCE: (OVER TRADITIONAL IRISH FOLK MUSIC) EXT. SEAN'S APARTMENT -- EARLY EVENING A wide, establishing shot of Sean's apartnert compiex as the ting. The lights aze on in one unit. A tighter eveals Sean, in his apartment, packing his belongings in é@zdboard boxes. EXT. SEAN'S APARTMENT, STREET -- SAME down from Sean's window and onto the street, pan to reveal Will, sitting in his car and looking up at az he packs his things. Wili's car is packed fu2: ef clothes and books EXT. SOUTH BOSTON STREET -- SAME Chuckie and the boys drive down the street in the Cadizlac. Morgan and Billy ride in the back, leaving the shotgun seat open for Will. EXT. SEAN'S APARTMENT -- SAME holds an envelope which he slips in Sean's maiipox. He the flag up and smiles as he looks up at Sean in his ‘tment who is still unaware thet Wii: is there. WILL'S APARTMENT --SAME Chuckie pulls up in front of Will's house. He honxs the hern, waits a beat, then gets out and heade toward the house. EXT. SEAN'S APARTMENT ~- SAME Will drives away from Sean's how out and looks out the window away. Curious, he investigat EXT. WILL'S APARTMENT -- SAME Chuckie waiks up Will's front steps. EXT. SEAN'S APARTMENT -- SAME Sean walks out to the Ibox fiag has been jMELL'S APARTMENT ie knocks on Will's front door. There is no answer. He ‘a beat, looks in the window. An incredulous amile alowzy $ the car pea. 8 car pulling EXT. SEAN'S APARTMENT -- SAME Sean opens the card Will left for him. It reads: (CONTINUED) sez pe26452952r08. WILL (in writing) Sean-- If the Professor calls about that Job, Just tell him, “sorry, x had to go ses about a girl.” EXT« WILL'S APARTMENT -- SAME ks back towards his car unable to contain a broad je knows Will ia gone. He shrugs in explanation to Morgan takes Will's seat as they pull away from the guys the eurb: EXT. SEAK'S APARTMENT -- SAME We pan up from the letter to a. A broad smile comes over him. This 4s a look we haven't seen, Sean is truly happy. EXT. MASSACHUSETTS TURNPIXE -~ SUNSET Will 49 on the road, driving away. As we ‘pull back and cred:ts roll, the car disappears inte the horizon. Teer2eni9s? 16:26 seieaszesz - 9% Pas